The Agincourt Bride, Joanna Hickson
The Agincourt Bride, Joanna Hickson
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The Agincourt Bride

Author: Joanna Hickson

Narrator: Catherine Harvey

Unabridged: 16 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 01/03/2013


Synopsis

The best-selling novel about the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty. ‘A bewitching first novel…alive with historical detail’ Good Housekeeping. Her beauty fuelled a war.Her courage captured a king.Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty. When her own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles VI of France. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de Valois, caught up in the turbulence and chaos of life at court. Mette and the child forge a bond, one that transcends Mette’s lowly position.But as Catherine approaches womanhood, her unique position seals her fate as a pawn between two powerful dynasties. Her brother, The Dauphin and the dark and sinister, Duke of Burgundy will both use Catherine to further the cause of France. Catherine is powerless to stop them, but with the French defeat at the Battle of Agincourt, the tables turn and suddenly her currency has never been higher. But can Mette protect Catherine from forces at court who seek to harm her or will her loyalty to Catherine place her in even greater danger?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa

I was disappointed in the Agincourt Bride, for many reasons. I felt that the novel had great potential, because it was written from the point-of-view of Katherine of Valois’s wet nurse turned Mistress of the Robes, Mette. This approach was different from many other historical fiction novels written......more

I enjoyed this novel based upon the earlier years of the life of Catherine of Valois. Through the eyes of her wet nurse and later confidante, Mette, we are with Catherine from birth and through the turbulent years of her adolescence. Only towards the end of this novel does she become the Queen of He......more


Quotes

Praise for The Agincourt Bride ‘Gripping and emotional.’ Woman ‘Superb…a real find.’ The Bookseller ‘Captivating.’ Woman’s Own