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442 pp.
| Viking |
June, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-670-01400-2$17.99
(4)
YA
Concentrating on Anne Boleyn's first three years in King Henry VIII's court, Longshore crafts a sympathetic first-person account of a young woman who's ambitious to be noticed, determined to choose her own husband, reluctantly enamored of the poet Thomas Wyatt, and loyal to her siblings. The decision to employ modern phrasings and modes of thought often interrupts the sense of historical authenticity.