The Italian Woman
  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446411995
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

The Italian Woman

(Medici Trilogy)

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15 Feb 2011
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1 Sep 2006
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In the days when the word 'Italian' was synonymous with 'poisoner', there was no woman the French despised more than their own Queen Regent, Catherine de' Medici...

In the days when the word 'Italian' was synonymous with 'poisoner', there was no woman the French despised more than their own Queen Regent, Catherine de' Medici...

When Catherine de' Medici was forced to marry Henry of Orleans, her's was not the only heart broken. Jeanne of Navarre once dreamed of marrying this same prince, but like Catherine, she must comply with King Francis's political needs. And so both Catherine and Jeanne's lives are set on unwanted paths, destined to cross in affairs of state, love and faith, driving them to become deadly political rivals.

Years later Jeanne is happily married to the dashing but politically inept Antoine de Bourbon, whilst the widowed Catherine continues to be loved by few and feared by many - including her children. But Catherine is now the powerful mother of kings, who will do anything to see her beloved second son, Henry, rule France. As civil war ravages the country and Jeanne fights for the Huguenot cause, Catherine advances along her unholy road, making enemies at every turn...
  • Published: 15 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446411995
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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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.

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Praise for The Italian Woman

Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama

New York Times

Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticiy of detail and depth of charaterization has become one of the country's most widely read novelists

Sunday Times

Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting

Observer

One of England's foremost historical novelists

Birmingham Mail

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, WH Smith Travel

An exciting tale and Jean Plaidy tells it with accurate knowledge

Times Literary Supplement

An excellent story

Irish Press

A penetrating and thoughtful study of Catherine de'Medici

Northern Daily Telegraph
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