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The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots
420 pp.
| Harcourt |
June, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-15-206188-3$16.99
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YAYoung Royals series.
This sympathetic, sometimes flat novel focuses on the first half of Mary Stuart's tempestuous life. Mary's first-person narration presents the young royal as a lively girl devoted to her friends. With each passing year, she experiences more manipulation and betrayal but is too unfamiliar with the politics of the French, Scottish, and English families involved to understand the dangers she faces.