Book description
The best-selling novel about the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty. 'A bewitching first novel...alive with historical detail' Good Housekeeping.
Her beauty fuelled a war.
Her courage captured a king.
Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty.
When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Metteā¦
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1 author picked The Agincourt Bride as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The old adage that you cannot judge a book by its cover certainly works for this one: It features a simpering blonde in a dodgy crown and the words āHer beauty fuelled a war. Her courage captured a kingā. Hicksonās novel is so much better than that. Catherine of Valois, the future wife of Henry V of England, and her faithful servant Mette, live through the dangerous and uncertain years following the catastrophic French defeat at Agincourt in 1415. Mette is Hicksonās own creation, constructed from a passing mention of a retainer called āGuillemotā in a contemporary English chronicle. Sheā¦
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