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    The King's Sister

    By Anne O'Brien

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    Elizabeth of Lancaster
    Sister. Wife. Traitor.

    One betrayal is all it takes to change history…


    June, 1380: Elizabeth Plantagenet – seventeen years old, spoilt, headstrong, fun-loving and intelligent — is about to be married. The Earl of Pembroke is an advantageous choice for all concerned, except Elizabeth, as the Earl is only eight years old.

    June, 1386: Scandalously pregnant by Sir John Holland, Duke of Exeter, whilst still married to the Earl, Elizabeth is hastily married again. As half-brother to King Richard II, Sir John is a man known to all for both his charm and self-interested scheming.

    Soon Elizabeth is drawn into the heart of a dangerous rebellion with her brother, King Henry IV, on one side, and her husband on the other. As tensions become a matter of life or death, Elizabeth is presented with an impossible choice of where to give her loyalty…

    “One of the best writers around... she outdoes even Philippa Gregory.” — The Sun

    “Extremely compelling historical fiction.” — Cosmopolitan

    “…packed with powerful emotions and tumultuous unfolding of an affair that changed the course of royal history, this is a novel in which to enjoy the past in all it rich colour and dramatic detail…” — Lancashire Evening Post

    “Anne O'Brien has joined the exclusive club of excellent historical novelists.” — Sunday Express

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateJan 1, 2015
    ISBN9781488797354
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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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