![]() Gristwood details the paths of seven royal women who transcended their roles as diplomatic pawns and heir producers.- The New YorkerĮntertaining and vividly drawn.- Literary Review Gristwood's perspective and lively writing are refreshing.- Toronto StarĪrguing persuasively for the existence of a 'female network, '. ![]() For too long, history has been the purview of men, of kings and their battles, wars, conquests, murders and thirst for power. A richly drawn, absorbing epic, Blood Sisters reveals how women helped to end the Wars of the Roses, paving the way for the Tudor age - and the creation of modern England.Ī new and welcome perspective on the Wars of the Roses.- Sunday Times (London)Ī revolutionary approach. ![]() But as acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the men who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies. Alison Weir The Wars of the Roses, which tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England, was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. ![]() enlivened by incisive analysis, exquisite detail and an elegant and witty style. ![]()
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