The White Queen - Philippa Gregory

Being a fan of Philippa Gregory's series of books on the Tudor dynasty I was very much looking forward to getting my teeth into this, her first attempt at the predecessors of the Tudors, the Plantagenets. I took this book on holiday with me and devoured it in 2 days - yet again Gregory manages to weave a wonderful story around the historical characters and creates a book which is very difficult to put down! Plot ==== This book focusses on the life of Elizabeth Woodville, who as a widow meets the young Edward IV and falls in love with him. Secretly married, against the wishes of the kings advisor Lord Warwick, she becomes Queen Consort and bears him 9 ...  Read the complete review

Philippa Gregory is probably best known, presently anyway, for her series of books about the Tudors including The Other Boleyn Girl and The Other Queen. I'm a big fan of this series of books and of Gregory's way of sympathetically fictionalising historical characters and events so when I spotted this book whilst out shopping it didn't take long for me to persuade myself to buy the hardback edition. This book, the first in The Cousins' War series, is set during the final years of the Wars of the Roses and the White Queen of the title is Elizabeth Woodville - Edward IV's queen. It's Spring 1464 the Yorkists are in the ascendancy, Edward IV is on the ...  Read the complete review