400 pages
English language
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
The Queen's Fool
It is winter, 153. Pursued by the inquistion, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight," the ability to foresee the future, is priceless in the troubled times of the Tudor court. Hannah is adopted by the glamorous Robert Dudley, the charismatic son of King Edward's protector, who brings her to court as a "holy fool" for Queen Mary and ultimately, Queen Elizabeth. Hired as a fool but working as a spy; promised in wedlock but in love with her master; endangered by the laws against heresy, treason, and withcraft, Hannah must choose between the safe life of a commonerand the dangerous intrigues of the royal family that are inextricably bound up in her own yearings and desires. -- back cover.
It is winter, 153. Pursued by the inquistion, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. But Hannah is no ordinary refugee. Her gift of "Sight," the ability to foresee the future, is priceless in the troubled times of the Tudor court. Hannah is adopted by the glamorous Robert Dudley, the charismatic son of King Edward's protector, who brings her to court as a "holy fool" for Queen Mary and ultimately, Queen Elizabeth. Hired as a fool but working as a spy; promised in wedlock but in love with her master; endangered by the laws against heresy, treason, and withcraft, Hannah must choose between the safe life of a commonerand the dangerous intrigues of the royal family that are inextricably bound up in her own yearings and desires. -- back cover.
