Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
If you read them all as one book – and you can – it is the most outstanding historical novel that I have ever read. It is effectively the history of England, seen through the eyes of each generation of the owners of a medieval house, from 1380 through to the 1950s.
Alison Weir is a British author and historian. She has written numerous popular history books, including, most recently, Captive Queen, about Eleanor of Aquitaine, and The Lady in the Tower, about the last days of Anne Boleyn.
