Light on Lucrezia: (Lucrezia Borgia)

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Jean Plaidy's captivating tale of the scandal-filled life of Lucrezia Borgia Light on Lucrezia is the compelling story of a beautiful woman caught up in a tortuous web of fear and love. Born into Rome's notorious Borgia family, Lucrezia's life so far has been coloured by violence and betrayal. Now, married for the second time at just eighteen she hopes for happiness with her handsome husband Alfonso. But faced with brutal murder she's soon torn between her love for her husband and her devotion to her brother Cesare ...

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A tale told bravely, excitingly and with a wealth of pictorial detail * Scotsman *
Plaidy uses her great power of storytelling to cast new light on a historical figure * Star *

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Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1993.