Three Sisters, Three Queens

A master storytellerGregory captures the intrigue and suspense of life at the Tudor court in vivid detail. She skilfully combines painstaking historical research with a gripping fictional narrative and her characters are so lifelike and engaging that they practically leap from the page -- <I><B>Daily Express</B></I> Gregory brilliantly captures the torn loyalties, treacheries and tragedies that lie beneath the historical detail, to entertaining effect -- <I><B>Good Housekeeping</B></I> Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told -- <I><B>The Times</B></I> Gregory creates a world in which all but the most determined women are tools in the hands of powerful men past-paced, convincing, vivid and engrossing -- <I><B>Daily Express</B></I> Philippa Gregory has another hit on her hands with this gripping page-turner. Her novel simplifies and humanises the complex politics of the period -- <I><B>Sunday Times</B></I> Lady Margaret Beaufort cold, clever, calculating will stop at nothing to put her son Henry Tudor on the throne. Gregory is very good at describing the bitchiness of the women in this tale of dynastic rivalry -- <I><B>Daily Telegraph</B></I> Rollicking, page-turning stuff -- <I><B>Metro</B></I> Popular history at its best -- <I><B>Daily Mail</B></I> Meticulously researchedfor each novel she immerses herself in dozens of primary and secondary sources, before transforming them into vivid fiction -- <I><B>Sunday Telegraph</B></I> Philippa Gregory is truly the mistress of the historical novel. It would be hard to make history more entertaining, lively or engaging -- <I><B>Sunday Express</B></I> Her novels are filled with strong, determined women who take their fate into their own hands -- <B><I>Financial Times</I></B> Rarely has history been so seductive -- <B><I>Tatler</I></B> Gregory makes history come alive ... riveting -- <I><B>Daily Express</B></I>

PHILIPPA GREGORY is one of the world's foremost historical novelists. She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. Now a recognised authority on women's history, Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University of London. Philippa is a member of the Society of Authors and in 2016 was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers' Association. In 2018, she was awarded an Honorary Platinum Award by Neilsen for achieving significant lifetime sales across her entire book output. She welcomes visitors to her site www.PhilippaGregory.com.