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A Rose without a Thorn. [Katherine Howard]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by PLAIDY Jean
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Robert Hale,, [1993]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The eleventh novel in the Queens of England series.
Synopsis
From the pen of legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes an unforgettable true story of royalty, passion, and innocence lost. Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked from her home to live with her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk. The innocent girl quickly learns that her grandmother's puritanism is not shared by Katherine's free-spirited cousins, with whom she lives. Beautiful and impressionable, Katherine becomes involved in two ill-fated love affairs before her sixteenth birthday. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, she leaves her grandmother's home to become a lady-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII. The royal palaces are exciting to a young girl from the country, and Katherine ?nds that her duties there allow her to be near her handsome cousin, Thomas Culpepper, whom she has loved since childhood. But when Katherine catches the eye of the aging and unhappily married king, she is forced to abandon her plans for a life with Thomas and marry King Henry. Overwhelmed by the change in her fortunes, bewildered and flattered by the adoration of her husband, Katherine is dazzled by the royal life. But her bliss is short-lived as rumors of her wayward past come back to haunt her, and Katherine's destiny takes another, deadly, turn.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Island Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21403
- Title
- A Rose without a Thorn. [Katherine Howard]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- PLAIDY Jean
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Robert Hale,
- Date Published
- [1993]
- Keywords
- modern firsts, jean plaidy, katherine howard, henry viii, queens of england, tudors, historical fiction, historical novels, jean plaidy, modern first editions, rose, without, thorn
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