The Kingmakers Daughter, Philippa Gregory
The Kingmakers Daughter, Philippa Gregory
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The Kingmaker's Daughter

Bestseller

Author: Philippa Gregory

Narrator: Bianca Amato

Unabridged: 15 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/14/2012


Synopsis

In this New York Times bestseller that inspired the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, Philippa Gregory tells the tale of Anne Neville, a beautiful young woman who must navigate the treachery of the English court as her father, known as the Kingmaker, uses her and her sister as pawns in his political game.

The Kingmaker’s Daughter—Philippa Gregory’s first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl—is the gripping tale of the daughters of the man known as the Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel, as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right.

At the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Married at age fourteen, she is soon left widowed and fatherless, her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. Anne manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family.

About Philippa Gregory

English born author, Philippa Gregory, received her degree in History from the University of Sussex, followed by a PhD in 18th century literature from the University of Edinburgh. Along the journey of her education, she discovered that she had an uncommon interest in the Tudor period. Using her history background, she first wrote The Other Boleyn Girl, which to her credit, was made into a TV drama, and followed by a major film.

Gregory has put much of her effort and personal money into a 20 year old charity that she founded. It is Gardens for The Gambria, that teaches school children to plant market gardens which are irrigated by the almost 200 wells that the author has funded. She is also a patron of The UK Chagos Support Association, a displaced people in the Indian Ocean.

Gregory was selected as the 2008 Edinburgh University Alumna of the Year. She lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on September 26, 2017

The series is very good... keeps your attention and tells the story from different perspectives. Not one of my favorite ones from Ms. Gregory, but still a good one. I felt like some of this was a littel repetitive and lacked the keen eye for re-telling something from a previous book in the series wi......more

Goodreads review by Agatha on August 19, 2012

This would have been four stars, except that whenever I read about the War of the Roses I get really mad and spend a lot of time hollering about how if these people had just stopped marrying their cousins and named some boy Horace or Malcolm or Glen instead of Edward and Richard and George and Henry......more

Goodreads review by Misty Marie on February 28, 2022

I am so glad we are done with this time period in the series. It was getting kind of repetitive. So in this installment we are still in the same years as Book 2 and 3. This time we are following Anne Neville, Richard Neville's youngest daughter. Richard Neville, nickname is "The Kingmaker" for being......more

Goodreads review by Constantine on March 05, 2022

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Historical Fiction Whenever I feel I am about to fall into a reading slump I grab a Phillipa Gregory book, and she comes to my rescue! I have all her books from this series and other series and a few standalone books too. I treasure these books and love them a lot. This book is a c......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on October 20, 2012

First let me say I am a huge PG fan. I have read all of her historical fiction novels and loved every one of them. I was very excited about the idea of reading about the life of Anne Neville (wife of Richard III). For some reason this book did not seem as compelling to me as her other novels. The fi......more