Royal "Legacy" Giveaway...

O.K. this is a goody! I am giving away a hardback edition of Legacy by Susan Kay pub. in 1985. Winner of Historical Fiction in Memory of Georgette Heyer 1985 award and the Betty Trask Prize. It is currently out of print and difficult to find. This is one of my all time favorite books about Elizabeth I. It took Susan Kay fifteen years to complete this book. This is a must for any serious Tudor buff's library.

Publisher's Weekly: Kay's prodigious research buttresses this robust historical romance, winner of Britain's Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize and the Betty Trask Prize for a first novel. England's greatest Queen is presented from an intriguing psychological viewpointElizabeth I's need for men and the bondage endured by those she chose. Freely mixing the verifiable with the imagined, Kay traces Elizabeth's rise from lonely childhood to lonely eminence. In the person of Robert Dudley, later Leicester, she creates a romantic fulcrum for Elizabeth's womanliness, delineating the childhood affection for Dudley that flowered in clandestine liaison and may be the closest Elizabeth came to a loving relationship. All of the Court's intriguing personnelfrom the ubiquitous, conniving Cecils to the presumptive upstart, Essexare drawn with care; the turbulence of the period, filled with violent deaths, challenges from abroad, pragmatic liaisons, is conveyed with verisimilitude; the rich tapesty of the Tudor ascendancy is woven with colorful threads. It is, however, the depiction of a woman of whom "half the wives of England were jealous" that lingers. Literary Guild main selection.

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