- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Orion; First edition (19 Jan 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752811797
- ISBN-13: 978-0752811796
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 980,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Unicorn's Blood" is a splendid Elizabethan thriller surrounding a plot to discredit the Virgin Queen herself. It plunges the reader once again into the vivid and deadly world of the sixteenth century: from the torture chambers of the Tower to the elegant artifice of court life; from the bawdy-houses of Southwark to the Queen's own bed.
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Patricia Finney has been writing since she was seven. Her first novel, A Shadow of Gulls, was published when she was eighteen and won the David Higham Award. Since then she has had a variety of jobs which have included editing a medical journal and writing a weekly TV preview column in the London Evening Standard.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It is not often a book takes my breath away and is genuinely "unputdownable", but this was one. I was transported into the seedier side of Elizabethan England and kept on tenterhooks throughout. It is beautifully written, atmospheric and of an historical accuracy rare to found outside of Dorothy Dunnett and Colleen McCullough. Best read in years!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Unicorn's Blood lays a web sophisticated enough to keep fans of Le Carre absorbed and stays historically accurate, while inventing characters we can care about. Her heros are never 20th century politically correct, but admirable despite all their 16th century faults and idiosycracies. From the main characters' daring fights and escapes, to the incidental players' acts of conscience, I was holding my breath, cheering, and agonizing for right to prevail.
It is set in Elizabeth's Court and the streets of late 16th Century London and interweaves the real life mystery of how Elizabeth came to execute her cousin, Mary. Finney employs interesting devices such as narration by the "Holy Virgin"/earth goddess. A great read for any fan of espionage, historical mystery, or just great fiction.
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I discovered Patricia Finney through her "Sir Robert Carey mysteries" and was delighted to find that this novel includes a glimpse of his earlier career, but that is just the gilt on the gingerbread. No, it's not an easy read, not least because this author believes in painting the Elizabethans Warts and All - which includes torture chambers, lack of plumbing, and the generally precarious business of sheer survival. But it is wonderfully written, and really seems to give an insight into sixteenth century minds.
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