The Lady of the Rivers

Cousins' War 3

Philippa Gregory

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9781847394668
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857204301
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

A SWEEPING NOVEL RICH IN PASSION AND LEGEND FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, PHILIPPA GREGORY
‘This is a man’s world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man’s drum. Do you understand?’

1435. Rouen. Jacquetta of Luxembourg is left a wealthy young widow when her husband, the Duke of Bedford, dies. Her only friend in the great household is Richard Woodville, the Duke’s squire, and it is not long before the two become lovers and marry in secret.

The Woodvilles return to the Lancaster court, where Jacquetta becomes close friends with young King Henry VI’s new queen. But she can sense a growing threat from the people of England, and the danger of royal rivals. The king slides into a mysterious sleep; Margaret, his queen, turns to untrustworthy favourites for help; and Richard, Duke of York, threatens to overturn the whole kingdom for his rival dynasty, the House of York.

Jacquetta fights for her king, her queen and her daughter Elizabeth Woodville, for whom she senses an extraordinary future.

Praise for Philippa Gregory:
 
‘Meticulously researched and deeply entertaining, this story of betrayal and divided loyalties is Gregory on top form’ Good Housekeeping
 
‘Gregory has popularised Tudor history perhaps more than any other living fiction writer…all of her books feature strong, complex women, doing their best to improve their lives in worlds dominated by men’ Sunday Times
 
‘Engrossing’ Sunday Express
 
‘Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told’ The Times

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Jacquetta's Family Tree
• Contents
• Castle of Beaurevoir, Near Arras, France, Summer–Winter 1430
• Rouen, France, Spring 1431
• Castle of St Pol, Artois, Spring 1433
• Paris, France, May 1433
• Castle of Calais, France, June 1433
• Westminster Palace, London, Summer 1433
• Penshurst, Autumn 1433
• Paris, France, December 1434–January 1435
• Gisors, France, February 1435
• Rouen, France, September 1435
• England, Summer 1436
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Autumn 1436
• Westminster Palace, London, Autumn 1436
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Autumn 1436–1439
• London, Summer 1441
• Westminster Palace, London, October 1441
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Winter 1441–1444
• Nancy, France, Spring 1445
• Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire, Summer 1445
• London, Summer 1445–1448
• Westminster Palace, London, Summer 1449
• Westminster Palace, London, Spring 1450
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Summer 1450
• London, Summer 1450
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Summer 1450
• Plymouth, Autumn 1450–1451
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Autumn 1451
• London, Spring 1452
• The West of England, Summer 1452
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Autumn 1452
• Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, London, Christmas 1452
• The Tower of London, Spring 1453
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Summer 1453
• Clarendon Palace, Wiltshire, Summer 1453
• Westminster Palace, London, Autumn 1453
• Westminster Palace, London, Spring 1454
• Windsor Castle, Summer 1454
• Windsor Castle, Winter 1454
• The Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, London, Spring 1455
• Hertford Castle, Summer 1455
• Groby Hall, Leicestershire, Autumn 1455
• Hertford Castle, Spring 1456
• Westminster Palace, London, Spring 1456
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Summer 1456
• Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, Summer 1457
• Rochester Castle, Kent, November 1457
• Westminster Palace, London, Winter–Spring 1458
• Westminster Palace, London, Winter 1458
• On Campaign, Summer–Autumn 1459
• Sandwich, Kent, and Calais, Winter 1460
• Coventry, Spring 1460
• Northampton, Summer 1460
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Summer 1460
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Winter 1460–61
• On the March, Spring 1461
• St Albans, Spring 1461
• York, Spring 1461
• Grafton, Northamptonshire, Spring 1464
• Author's Note
• Bibliography
• Gardens for the Gambia
• Copyright