Daughters of Spain
  • Published: 1 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099513544
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99

Daughters of Spain

(Isabella & Ferdinand Trilogy)

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15 Feb 2011
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1 Aug 2008
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The final volume in Jean Plaidy's well-loved Spanish Trilogy

With Spain now united, Ferdinand looked to his daughters to further his ambitions. All too often, Isabella found herself torn between his brilliant plans and her love for her children. During the last years of Isabella's reign it seemed there was a curse on the royal house which struck at the children of the sovereigns.

Tragedy followed tragedy - the Infanta Isabella, a broken-hearted widow; Juana, driven to madness by her husband's philandering; and the sorrow of parting with young Catalina, destined to become Katharine of Aragon, wife to Henry VIII and Queen of England ...
  • Published: 1 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099513544
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Jean Plaidy

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.

Also by Jean Plaidy

The Bastard King
The Lion of Justice
The Passionate Enemies
The Spanish Bridegroom
The Queen of Diamonds
Daughter of Satan
Caroline the Queen
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Praise for Daughters of Spain

Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there

Matt Bates, WHSmith Travel

Jean Plaidy doesn't just write the history, she makes it come alive.

Julia Moffat, RNA

Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting

Observer

Jean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity

Guardian

Outstanding

Vanity Fair

One of the country's most widely read novelists

Sunday Times
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