New Book Alert - Her Mother's Daughter

Her Mother’s Daughter by Julianne Lee

Genre: Historical Fiction

Publisher: Berkley Trade

Release Date: December 1, 2009

Her name was Mary Tudor. First of the Tudor queens, she has gone down in history as Bloody Mary. But does she deserve her vicious reputation?

She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, and half-sister to Edward VI and Elizabeth I. Mary Tudor's life began as the sweetly innocent, pampered princess of Wales-until the age of eleven when the father she adored cast aside the mother she worshipped and declared Mary a bastard. Only after years of exile did Mary finally rise to the throne alongside the man who, aside from her father, was her greatest love-and her greatest betrayer.

Told by Mary herself and the people around her, this grand-scale novel takes us back to the glittering court of sixteenth-century England, and tells the tragic story of a fascinating, largely misunderstood woman who withstood the treachery and passion around her only to become one of England's most vilified queens (from back cover)

I am very excited about this book. I have had a soft spot for Mary even though I haven’t read anything strictly about her. I think that she deserves her reputation in some ways but was misunderstood in many other ways and taken advantage of. I can’t wait to see how she is portrayed in this book. If you want to read a great review of this book (and a giveaway), check out The Burton Review.

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