Mary and Elizabeth, the two young princesses, have a common goal: to be Queen of England. To achieve this, they need both to win the love of the people and learn how to negotiate dangerous political pitfalls. Gregory recreates this era with tremendous colour, and she makes the court an enticing but danger-fraught place. Into this setting comes the eponymous fool, the youthful Hannah, who (despite her air of guileless religiousness) is not naive. She soon finds herself having to deal with the beguiling but treacherous Robert Dudley. Dispatched to report on Princess Mary, Hannah discovers in her a passionate religious conviction (to return England to the rule of Rome and its pope) that will have fatal consequences.
From Tolstoy's War and Peace onwards, historical novelists have set fictitious characters among real-life personages with mixed success; the author's creations can often pale beside the historical figures. That is emphatically not the case here, and Gregory ensures that all her characters have a full and teeming life. Expect a major movie: something as colourful and exuberant as The Queen's Fool is a natural for screen adaptation. --Barry Forshaw --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
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主人公ハンナが後年エリザベスの永遠の恋人となるレスター伯ロバート・ダドリー卿の若き日に少女らしいプリンス・チャーミングとして恋するところもとても可愛らしい
この秋今度は王位についたエリザベスとロバート卿の愛情関係に今度はロバートの妻アミーも登場するらしい(?)virgins lover が出版されるようでこれまたいまから期待しています
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