![]() " Better than the Kings pleasure mainly because for me, Anne was far more intresting than Katherine. The cover jpeg is of the Touchstone edition. Touchstone then bought the US rights through me. It was Alison Weir's suggestion to reissue the book. " I commissioned the current reissue at Tempus (under the Torc imprint). It reaches and delves into her thoughts, emotions, and brings her down to a more realistic level. " So far this is one of the best accounts of historical fiction of Anne Boleyn. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.I thought it was a good way of adapting a well known historical story and weaving in fiction and delveloping the characters so well. "I really enjoyed this book, as it gave me an idea of a potential way that Anne Boleyn would have seen herself, and her relationship with Henry VIII. Against his will, his own common sense, Henry found himself bewitched - enthralled by the young girl who was to be known as the Concubine. But this was no ordinary woman, no maid-in-waiting to be possessed and discarded by a king. The King first noticed her when she was sixteen - and with imperial greed he smashed her youthful love-affair with Harry Percy and began the process of royal seduction. ![]() Black-haired, black eyes, she had a wild-sprite quality that was to prove more effective, more dangerous than conventional feminine appeal. ![]() All eyes and hair a courtier had said disparagingly of her - and certainly the younger daughter of Tom Boleyn lacked the bounteous charms of most ladies of Court. ![]()
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