A compelling story of the last days of one of history's most charismatic, controversial and tragic heroines - Anne Boleyn.
Alison Weir is one of Britain's top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods. Her bestselling history books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth of York and, most recently, The Lost Tudor Princess. Her novels include Innocent Traitor, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession. She is an Honorary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces. She is married with two adult children and lives and works in Surrey.
One of our best popular historians...with an impressive scholarly
pedigree in Tudor history
*Independent on Sunday*
It is testament to Weir's artfulness and elegance as a writer that
The Lady in the Tower remains fresh and suspenseful, even though
the reader knows what's coming... One of the pleasures of The Lady
in the Tower is that it invites the reader into the
historiographical process as Weir's emphasis on primary sources
allows us to evaluate them alongside her
*Independent*
Weir...knows her sources well. She writes in an engaging way and
adopts an even-handed approach
*Irish Times*
This is vintage Weir: a thrilling episode of history superbly
related and treated with penetrating analysis and a great dollop of
common sense
*Literary Review*
The research is exhaustive... It would be hard to imagine a more
thorough examination of any comparable historical issue... Weir is
to be congratulated on her impartiality and sound judgement
*BBC History Magazine*
Rejecting as myth that Henry VIII, desirous of a son and a new queen, asked his principal adviser Thomas Cromwell to find criminal grounds for executing Anne Boleyn, the prolific British historian Weir (The Six Wives of Henry VIII) concludes that Cromwell himself, seeing Anne as a political rival, instigated "one of the most astonishing and brutal coups in English history," skillfully framing her and destroying her faction. Ably weighing the reliability of contemporary sources and theories of other historians, Weir also claims that though perhaps sexually experienced, Anne was technically a virgin before sleeping with Henry. Anne was also, Weir posits, a passionate radical evangelical, with considerable influence over Henry regarding Church reform. Weir wonders if Anne's childbearing history points to her being Rh negative and thus incapable of bearing a second living child. Dissecting four of the most momentous months in world history and providing an eminently judicious, thorough and absorbing popular history, Weir nimbly sifts through a mountain of historical research, allowing readers to come to their own conclusions about Henry's doomed second queen. 15 pages of color photos. (Dec.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
One of our best popular historians...with an impressive scholarly
pedigree in Tudor history * Independent on Sunday *
It is testament to Weir's artfulness and elegance as a writer that
The Lady in the Tower remains fresh and suspenseful, even
though the reader knows what's coming... One of the pleasures of
The Lady in the Tower is that it invites the reader into the
historiographical process as Weir's emphasis on primary sources
allows us to evaluate them alongside her * Independent *
Weir...knows her sources well. She writes in an engaging way and
adopts an even-handed approach * Irish Times *
This is vintage Weir: a thrilling episode of history superbly
related and treated with penetrating analysis and a great dollop of
common sense -- Jessie Childs * Literary Review *
The research is exhaustive... It would be hard to imagine a more
thorough examination of any comparable historical issue... Weir is
to be congratulated on her impartiality and sound judgement * BBC
History Magazine *
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