Virgin Widow: England's Forgotten Queen by Anne O'Brien
This is a book about the history of England from 1462 to 1472 and is narrated by Lady Anne Neville, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker. The book starts in 1469 when the Earl of Warwick and his family escaped from England to save their lives after the Earl started a second rebellion against King Edward IV in order to replace him with the king’s younger brother, also the husband of the Earl’s oldest daughter. Then the book goes back to 1462, when the Earl had dethroned Henry VI and had made Edward IV the king of England, and it ends in 1472 when Anne Neville and Richard of Gloucester had a son together.
An engaging biographical fiction work that looks closely at Anne Neville caught between the two sides of the War of the Roses. She is a puppet to her politically ambitious father. With a more human perspective of Richard than Shakespeare’s version, fans will enjoy this look at fractured England through the eyes of a key participant unwillingly pulled in several conflicting directions.
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