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About the Author: Suzannah Dunn
Suzannah Dunn is a graduate of Creative Writing program at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of several books including, "the Queen of Subtleties: A Novel of Anne Boleyn" and "The Sixth Wife".
"The Queen's Sorrow", a novel about Mary I, will be released July, 2008.

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Submitted by:Yddib

Comments:Personally I found this book a huge let down. I was really looking forward to it but found it slow amd really not enough scenes with Mary. I did not care enough to finish it but will go back to it at some point. Mary, I have always felt gets so overlooked and I was looking forward to a story that showed her in a sympathethic light. This is told through the eyes of a spanish ambas did not do it. It was really boring in places and I know Marys story is far from boring!

Submitted by: Lady Demiya

Comments: The blurb on the back of the book is deceiving. However, the book's title is somewhat related to the story - right at the very end you do see how the 'Queen's sorrow' affects the characters in the book.

I was, at first, disappointed that is was not based around Mary. Instead, it is a fictional book based in her reign. The main character is a Spanish sundial maker - Rafael - the story is set around his time in England. Once I got over the shock of it not being based ABOUT Mary, I began to really enjoy the story. In some ways it reminds me of the Phillipa Gregory book: The Queen's Fool. Both these books are set in Mary's turbulent era in her reign, and both books have main characters as foreigners in London, trying to get by without causing trouble.

I advise to read this book if you are interested in reading a fictional tale set during Mary's reign. There is little of Mary herself in the book, but don't pay any heed to what is written on the back blurb.

The only thing I did not like about this book (the plot in general) was how the story ended. It was rather... sudden, and it did not make a whole lot of sense in what happened to a particular character.

I'd give this book a 3 out of 5 stars.

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About the Author: Hilda Lewis

Hilda Lewis (1896 - 1974) wrote dozens of popular historical novels in her lifetime. Most, including her trilogy about Mary Tudor, are currently out of print, but some like "Wife to the Bastard" and "Harlot Queen" have been reprinted in recent years since the genre of historical fiction has regained in popularity. "I am Mary Tudor" is the first in her trilogy, followed by "Mary the Queen" and "Bloody Mary".

Submitted by: angelosdaughter

Comments: An epic tale told from the point of view of Princess/Queen Mary Tudor who is here the fictional author of her memoir. A lively and engaging retelling of events in the Tudor court as witnessed by the daughter of Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon either at first or second hand, "I am Mary Tudor" gives the reader a glimpse of the mind of the princess at first celebrated and adored by her parents and later bastardized and humiliated by her father after his divorce from Katharine. Mary's love for both of her parents, her dismay at the unfolding betrayal of her father, her grief at the separation from her mother, and her conflicted (and it seems unreciprocated) love for her little half sister, Elizabeth, the daughter of her mother's supplanter are convincingly portrayed. The author has done her research and lists the sources consulted in the back of the book. Readers of nonfiction on the period will recognize the characters. This novel may be out of print, but is well worth borrowing from your local library if you can find it.

Submitted by: queen_elizabeth_1533

Comments: This is a very good representation of important events in Tudor history from Mary's viewpoint. Most books are written from the view of one of Henry's wives, Elizabeth, or even Henry VIII himself, but there are only a few that really explore the story from Mary's side. Mary is often portrayed as a kind of villain, killing the Protestants and imprisoning her sister, but this story brings to light just how hard her life was, and the devastating effect of her parents' divorce. Wonderful book!

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About the Author: Jean Plaidy

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Submitted by:Yddib

Comments:This is a great read. Really brings it home to how much Mary suffered and is very well written.

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About the Author: Rosemary Churchill

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Mary Tudor - Fiction Shelf - The Tudors Wiki

Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel of Queen Mary Tudor

by Julianne Lee

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Mary Tudor: England's First Queen
By: Anna Whitelock

Submitted by: Lady-Demiya

Comments: First book I have read solely based on Mary Tudor. It is not as in-depth as I would have preferred, but Anna gives a good detailed biography of Mary's Reign, but little information on her childhood in the time of Anne Boleyn.

Overall, it is a good read, and you can easily get absorbed in Anna's writing. It is worth reading.

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