

The Irish Princess
A Novel
Author: Karen Harper
Narrator: Ana Clements
Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/23/2020
Categories: Fiction, Women, Historical Fiction
Author: Karen Harper
Narrator: Ana Clements
Unabridged: 10 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/23/2020
Categories: Fiction, Women, Historical Fiction
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author KAREN HARPER is a former Ohio State University instructor and high school English teacher. Published since 1982, she writes contemporary suspense and historical novels about real British women. Two of her recent Tudor-era books were bestsellers in the UK and Russia. Harper won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for Dark Angel, and her novel Shattered Secrets was judged one of the best books of the year by Suspense Magazine.
I really liked this book and I'm glad that I read it. It is a historical Tudor era novel, but is about more peripheral characters than you usually get. (For example Queen Elizabeth is a minor character instead of one of the main ones). Actually a lot of the things that happen in the book really did......more
I enjoy a good historical fiction novel. The author calls it a "historical faction" meaning most is fact while some stuff was added to keep the story running smoothly. Of course I was googling the people in this book as soon as I finished! This story was about Elizabeth "Gera" Fitzgerald .. from a no......more
I really liked this. I love historical novels set in the Tudor Era especially when I learn about someone new. This is about Gera Fitzgerald - an Irish relation who becomes very close to Queen Elizabeth. It starts with the execution of her father - who was ruling Ireland - by Henry VIII and how Gera......more
The Fitzgeralds were considered Irish royalty when the English Tudors deposed them in 1533. Harper follows the young Elizabeth Fitzgerald from the imprisonment of her father in the Tower of London and the siege of her family’s castle to the execution of her half brother and five uncles in London.......more
This gem by Karen Harper details the life of Elizabeth Fitzgerald (a/k/a The Fair Geraldine) Yeah, I don't get it either. Let's just say Gera (as she was called) had plenty of reason to despise the Tudors. In fact her story kinda makes you want to dig the lot of them up and raise them to life just so......more