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    The King's Concubine

    By Anne O'Brien

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    History paints her as a low–born, unattractive, grasping and greedy woman who used her position of power with King Edward purely for her own ends. This stunning novel rewrites perceptions and brings us Alice Perrers as you've never seen her before!

    Taken from the gutter by the Queen of England and given a role much above her station, Alice can ignore the jealous whispers if it means she's one step closer…to becoming somebody. A woman of history.

    Like no other woman of the court, confident, bold and forthright, the infamous Alice Perrers soon finds herself in the path of the King himself. But is she driven by power, politics or love? Her enemies want her banished. The King wants her as his mistress. Alice is on the road to infamy and there's no turning back.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781460810149
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    Anne O'Brien

    Anne O'Brien was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire. After gaining a BA Honours degree in History at Manchester University and a Master's in Education at Hull, she lived in the East Riding for many years as a teacher of history. She now lives with her husband in an eighteenth-century timber-framed cottage in depths of the Welsh Marches in Herefordshire on the borders between England and Wales.

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    • 4/5
      I recently finished this book and enjoyed it immensely. The author portrays Alice as an astute business woman that you grow to respect and like. I did not experience any difficulty with the way that the book is written, however I did need to use the dictionary on the kindle to look up quite a few words. I would not let that deter you from reading the book. I felt that the book was well written and kept me engaged wondering what was going to happen to Alice next.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the story in this book but I found the writing style deeply, deeply irritating.