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Time and Chance
  • Published: 24 April 2003
  • ISBN: 9780140270778
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $32.99

Time and Chance



A New York Times bestseller in hardback.

TIME AND CHANCE, the second part of the trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, opens during the glory years of their reign.

While Henry redefined the role of medieval kingship, Eleanor gave birth to their children, founding a dynasty that would endure for 300 years. But even in these happy times, shadows were lurking. Battles on two borders. The disastrous appointment of Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury. And when Henry took lovely young Rosumund Clifford into his bed, little did he realise that in making an enemy of his proud, passionate queen he was making the gravest mistake of all ...

  • Published: 24 April 2003
  • ISBN: 9780140270778
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Sharon Penman

Sharon Penman is one of the most popular historical novelists writing today. Her bestselling story of Richard III, The Sunne in Splendour, was published in 1982 and her acclaimed Welsh trilogy, Here Be Dragons, Falls the Shadow and The Reckoning, was similarly successful. Time and Chance is the second in a trilogy that opened with When Christ and His Saints Slept (1994). Sharon Penman has travelled widely on both sides of the Atlantic researching her work. She lives in New Jersey.

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