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Title: A DANGEROUS INHERITANCE
By: Alison Weir
Format: Paperback

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 0091926246
ISBN 13: 9780091926243
Publisher: CORNERSTONE
Pub. date: 1 May, 2012
Pages: 528
Description: Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. She has heard terrible rumours of the death of the young deposed Edward V and his brother but loyalty to her father prevents her believing them.
Synopsis: The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices, echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room where she is imprisoned. The story flashes back to 1483 and another Catherine - Kate Plantaganet, bastard daughter of Richard III. She has heard terrible rumours of the death of the young deposed Edward V and his brother (the Princes in the Tower) but loyalty to her father prevents her believing them. After his death at Bosworth, she is viewed with suspicion by Henry VII's court, even more so when she becomes pregnant. Catherine, too, is pregnant, a friendly warder having sneaked Edward into her room. She finds documents relating to Kate's life and gets swept up both in Kate's story and the mystery of the Princes, which she realises Kate never solved. Kate dies in childbirth and it is left to Catherine to discover the truth about the Princes.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Hutchinson
Returns: Returnable
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