another "to be read;" they are overtaking my home! :)

RELEASE NOTES:

I am finally mailing this off to Bulgaria as promised a while back. The books got packed with the rest of our belongings in our unexpected move to TN. I am so sorry that this took so long!

I was very happy to receive this book along with a nice complimentary hardback copy of "Pastoral" by Philip Roth. You should not worry about the delay,such a gift is always welcome,thank you so much!

I liked the book a lot.It gave the familiar pleasure of being immersed into Gregory`s carefully considered net of complex relationships,dynamic development and psychological insights. I read "The Virgin`s Lover" in summer,and it was interesting to see the raising of Elisabeth to the throne from the other side,through the eyes of a careful mediator,a brave independant girl,Hannah.
Needless to say,I liked Hannah very much.She has a wit,a great sense of her own personality and value,a strong feeling for independance; she is loyal and honest. I liked her story with Daniel which started so slow and unpromisingly at the beginning,but thereafter developed into a beautiful love. I understood completely her disappointment and pain when she discovered that Daniel had a child from another woman.She was a little bit too severe with him and I admit that I was a bit disappointed when she left him but it was quite natural,for she was deeply hurt by his lie,especially after the cold reception from her mother and sisters in law.

Mary and Elisabeth were very well portrayed.I enjoyed the way Hannah analysed them with her sharp intelligence. She balanced very luckily between her several masters: Queen Mary,Robert Dudley and Elisabeth. I don`t know how Hannah managed to stay loyal and symphatetic to Queen Mary when the country was set on fanatic religious fire.Perhaps she understood that in her heart Queen Mary was a deeply hurted and disappointed woman and her unhappiness made her so fanatical about religion.

The happy reunion of Hannah and Daniel brought to me a big reading pleasure at the end:-)).

I`m looking for someone to send this book.I have PMed a bookcrosser in Germany with the intention fo making Rabck.

RELEASE NOTES:

Sending to seacloud49 who has this book on her wish list.

This arrived today, thanks to bookmaniac70! :-) Goes on Mt. TBR.

I really enjoyed this book! I liked how Queen Mary was portrayed not as a cruel religious fanatic but as a deeply hurt woman who's had the worst luck in her life! I also liked the minor characters like Daniel and Jane Dormer. The next book I'm going to read is by Philippa Gregory as well, The Virgin's Lover. Hannah Green is mentioned there briefly in the beginning as she is returning from Calais with Robert Dudley and the book describes the relationship between Elizabeth and Dudley and the effect this has on his wife, Amy. Will be interesting to read this from a different perspective than the one used in The Queen's Fool.