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The Queen and the Countess
By (Author) Anne O'Brien
Orion Publishing Co
Orion
25th February 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Paperback
464
Width 153mm, Height 234mm
'Anne O'Brien crosses swathes of time seamlessly.' CAROL MCGRATH
KEEP THY FRIENDS CLOSE,THY ENEMIES CLOSER...England 1450sQueen Margaret knows she must protect the crown - and her son Prince Edward's claim to it - at all costs. With her husband, King Henry, increasingly frail, it is up to Margaret to fight for their inheritance. And as the Wars of the Roses rage on, her enemies and their wives lurk close, threatening to unravel everything she is trying to protect.Anne, Countess of Warwick has long striven to be a loyal and accomplished wife to the Earl of Warwick. But when she develops an unlikely alliance with the Lancastrian Queen Margaret, her husband's adversary, she wonders how much power now lies in her hands to determine the course of history. Crossing enemy lines, the pair strike up a thorny friendship - yet in the midst of treachery and the turmoil of battle, can the two women trust each other Or is it only a matter of time before war drives a sword between them...Anne O'Brien is a Sunday Times bestselling author and has sold close to a million copies of her books globally. Anne gained a BA Honours degree in History at Manchester University and a Master's in Education at Hull, working in East Yorkshire for many years as a teacher of history. Today, she lives with her husband in the Welsh Marches in Herefordshire, where she writes about the many forgotten women of history.