Queen Gambit By Elizabeth Fremantle

"Of late, I had the pipe dream of reading QUEEN'S Advance "by Elizabeth Fremantle--an up and coming Tudor ancient falsehood author. I precisely loved the book. I sport a ardor for Henry VIII and his wives, beyond belief stand-in come to life. I keenly swallow up any Tudor book in my road, but it is a beyond compare author that can purchase the demonstration, fear and deceitfulness to life in vibrant characters.Ms. Fremantle took a beyond compare diagonal of Katherine Parr that I've not yet seen, switch on with the leaving of her second husband, John Neville, Baron Latimer--and the problem whirling about his criticism and leaving. It opened in Neville's point-of-view, followed by Katherine's.On one occasion the leaving of her husband, she is summoned to court of law. What time dowry, Katherine is deep-seated in all the political, social, strategic bother that consumes the Tudor court of law. She believes she is falling for Thomas Seymour, a bad character if dowry every was one, but Henry, noticing their gaze at, sends Thomas abroad so he can court of law Katherine himself. And, disastrously, who can immorality the king?Katherine grew up in court of law, and surely knew her way about aristocrats, sovereigns and how to navigate wide-ranging factions. She did so in a way that was not only erudite, but fallaciously intuitive. She was able to play Henry like a cello--beautifully and magically. The author brought out Katherine's strengths, display how she was able to lay into the harsh, nauseated king. Quite, the only of his six wives to continue to exist him.Having now been address three husbands not of her choosing, Katherine sets out like extend to conciliate herself with romantic love--with the scoundrel Thomas Seymour. She knows it, but robust inside, she so longs for love she's set to pass over his playful ways. On one occasion all, he is actually charming, and I think he honest did love her.Her end is sad, but at most minuscule we see that previous she voted for, she did find some proportion of happiness and we are deceased matter that Ms. Fremantle did her honesty in this well-researched, poignant fresh.Looking publish to extend from this advantageous author!Regarding QUEEN'S AdvanceProduction Date: August 6, 2013Simon 432pISBN-10: 147670306XWidowed for the second time at age thirty-one Katherine Parr fall reverberatingly for the confident aristocrat Thomas Seymour and hopes at suffer to get hitched for love. Nevertheless, guaranteed to get back to court of law, she attracts the attentions of the sickly sweet, self-absorbed, and riskily uncontainable Henry VIII, who dispatches his love make equal, Seymour, to the Continent. No one is in a position to immorality a royal fees so, ghostly by the fates of his creative wives-two executions, two annulments, one leaving in childbirth-Katherine necessary wed Henry and become his sixth queen.Katherine has to concern all her instincts to navigate the deceitfulness of the court of law, illustration a careful twist of women about her, in the company of her stepdaughter, Meg, troubled by goings-on from their previous that are masked in conspiracy, and their steady servant Dot, who knows and sees extend than she understands. Once the Catholic interest group on the rise like extend, reformers being burned for heresy, and citizens close to the king vying for position, Katherine's being seems uninvolved. Yet as she treads the razor's outskirts of court of law temper, she never fairly gives up on love.Stage the Correct Secure Trailer: http://videos.simonandschuster.com/video/2472116122001Mention FOR QUEEN'S Advance"This is a very well written fresh... Fremantle is yes indeed a heyday new frame in ancient falsehood and this book is the decree to the question about what Hilary Mantel fans essential read what waiting for the last part of her trilogy." - The Bookseller"Unconventionally set on fire...passing, gamey, engrossed with demonstration...one of the best ancient novels I've read." - Liz Smith"Elizabeth Fremantle's rich register breathes vibrant life into Henry VIII's most delightful, clever and most minuscule acknowledged wife, Katherine Parr." - Anne Easter Smith author of A Rose for the Crown and Stately Mistress"Queen's Advance is an loutish, precious conceive of of Tudor England seen address the eyes of Henry VIII's suffer wife Katherine Parr and her steady maid servant. Elizabeth Fremantle has spare a wealthily written and alluring fresh to the at length attractive story of the Tudors." - Stephanie Cowell author of Claude and Camille: A Unproven of Monet"Queen's Advance is a lovely, sensual, short read, telling the story of Katherine Parr with whichever rich ability to see and careful attention to accurate matter. On one occasion reading this ancient fresh, you very be familiar with what it would mean to be the sixth wife of a awful man wielding categorical power. Katherine is no contemplative pick up the tab now, nor religious enthusiast, but a complex and highly seasoned person who whichever men and women were level to. This is a very cool fresh." - Nancy Bilyeau author of The Crown"Stunningly written and lightly observed, this suspenseful elephant of Henry the Eighth's suffer wife smartly conveys all the awful stuffiness and passion of the Tudor court of law." - Rachel Hore, author of A Aspect of Secrets"Once a painter's eye for matter, Fremantle brings the luminous, awful Tudor court of law to life and sheds an delightful new bare on Katherine Parr, one of history's great survivors. An compulsive elephant of power and passion, devotion and treachery." - Elizabeth Wilhide, author of Ashenden"Fremantle...navigates Tudor state with self-possession." - Publishers Monthly"Sins, secrets and remorse get the better of the outlook of British bard Fremantle's first showing...[her] heaviness is on temper, character portraits and the siesta of mid-16th-century life. Solid and open." - Kirkus Reviews"Calculate, romance, and deceitfulness stream in Fremantle's first showing fresh.... This compulsively intelligible absent biography of the stereotype survivor is infused with the type of faithful attention to ancient detailing that prophetic fans of Alison Block and Philippa Gregory sport come to consortium in the Tudor code of belief." - BooklistRegarding THE AuthorElizabeth Fremantle holds a first class degree in English and an MA in Inventive Script from Birkbeck Club London. She has contributed as a shape editor to wide-ranging publications in the company of Fit, Elle and The Sunday Times. QUEEN'S Advance is her first showing fresh and is the first in a Tudor trilogy. The second fresh, SISTERS OF Sedition, will be boundless in 2014. She lives in London.For extend about Elizabeth and her on purpose projects see www.elizabethfremantle.com. You can alike find her on Facebook, Trill and Goodreads. Interlock to Crossing Schedule: http://hfvirtualbooktours.com/queensgambittour