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had a terrible and undeserved reputation, and this book goes a long way to rectifying this. It is never trivial, or patronising, it just tells a completely different story to the one we have all been brought up to believe. Richard is not portrayed as a hunch-backed, uncaring monster, more as a man faced with unspeakable dilemmas, and no way out. I admit to having a soft spot for Richard Plantagenet, and I do feel that he has been treated very unfairly by history. However, this book enables him to have his say, and to try to put the record staright. He was betrayed, and the battle scene description at Bosworth Field, when he knew that treason had been committed, moved me to tears. This book doesn't just deal in facts, it also
gives the story from a more personal view, and that made it more appealing to me. I loved it. Read it, so will you.
This is a magnificent book and the life of the House of York bounds out of the pages that scarcely allow you awareness of our own time and place. I vested so much emotional currency on this book, that when history revealed itself I was left with an unforgettable feeling of longing and loss.
First of all let me give you the book in short. The book is about Richard III. It starts to follow him as a young lad during the first few years of the War of the Roses. It gives extensive back story into Edward V, Richards’s brother. It takes the house of York from loss to ultimate triumph. Edward ascends the throne and Richard becomes the Duke of Gloucester. This book centres on the man Richard becomes, but it does so through the occurrences in Edwards reign. It then moves to Edwards’s death and Richard’s ascension to the throne and his ultimate battle. By ultimate battle I do not just mean in war. His personal life is as closely scrutinised as his public image, which brings a element of romance and sacrifice into the book.
It gives details and facts that are historically accurate, but what the author has done is to bind history with the characters and filled in their emotions and characteristics based on fact and intuition. The truth of such matters after such a long time is suspect at best, but what this book brings us is a version of what it might have been like. You start to love Richards’s character and adore Edward V, all of a sudden your world is a swirling mass of banners and swords.
The authors view on the Richard III is not uncommon. Many people believe that the portrait of Richard III as painted by those that defeated him was created to besmirch the image of a King. They made him a deformed killer with no moral scruples. Recent evidence shows that this may just have been the victor’s version of history. There is reason to believe that Richard III in his life was a good pious and loving man. Whatever the truth, this is Sharon Penman’s version and it sits very well.
What is most impressive about the book is that it convinces you that it is real, it paints an accurate picture of politics in the 15th century, and the power struggle that even Kings have. You start to understand the nature of people in that age, with their betrayals, plots and hatred. It is utterly compelling, believable and eventually heartbreaking. Please please read it.
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