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Queen's gambit / Elizabeth Fremantle.

Summary:

"Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. However, obliged to return to court, she attracts the attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII, who dispatches his love rival, Seymour, to the Continent. No one is in a position to refuse a royal proposal so, haunted by the fates of his previous wives—two executions, two annulments, one death in childbirth—Katherine must wed Henry and become his sixth queen. Katherine has to employ all her instincts to navigate the treachery of the court, drawing a tight circle of women around her, including her stepdaughter, Meg, traumatized by events from their past that are shrouded in secrecy, and their loyal servant Dot, who knows and sees more than she understands. With the Catholic faction on the rise once more, reformers being burned for heresy, and those close to the king vying for position, Katherine’s survival seems unlikely. Yet as she treads the razor’s edge of court intrigue, she never quite gives up on love."--from publisher

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781476703060 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 147670306X (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9781476703077 (trade pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 424 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schusterk, 2013.
Subject: Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548 > Fiction.
Courts and courtiers > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > Henry VIII, 1509-1547 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 8 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Elkford Public Library. (Show)

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  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Elkford Public Library FC FRE (Text) 35170000356360 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
100 Mile House Branch FRE (Text) 33923005144286 Historical Volume hold Available -
Castlegar Public Library FIC FRE (Text) 35146001822352 Fiction Volume hold Available -
Hudson's Hope Public Library FIC FIC FRE (Text) BHH040619 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Nelson Public Library F FRE (Text) 3514830017346 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Quesnel Branch FRE (Text) 33923005144294 Historical Volume hold Available -
Tumbler Ridge Public Library AF FREMA (Text) TRL065495 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -
Williams Lake Branch FRE (Text) 33923005144302 Historical Volume hold Available -


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