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“She is one of those people who have found serenity because they have never tried to dodge suffering.”This is a wonderful work of historical fiction of one of the lesser-known wives of King Henry VIII, Anne of Cleves, who was a young Flemish princess of the Duchy of Cleves. When Jane Seymour, wife...
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“I suppose it is the bane of mortality to suffer time as it narrows and confines, to know that never again will anything seem as wide, as open, as attainable as it did in our youth.”From the first paragraph of The Last Queen, you are launched forward into a beguiling, rich world of...
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“Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore”I’m a big fan of Elizabeth Chadwick and her stories always impress me. The Love Knot is a wonderful story set amongst the Civil War between King Stephen and his cousin,...
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The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans (✫✫✫✫)A great, engaging, easy read. A moving story that will probably hold your interest. The ending is way too neat though, somewhat too convenient and thus artificial. But other than that, it was a good book and a great investment of reading time.Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe...
