The Marriage Game - Hardcover

Weir, Alison

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3,248 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091926254 ISBN 13: 9780091926250

Publisher: Hutchinson, 2014

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Elizabeth I is courted by princes and encourages their advances while avoiding commitment in a politically fraught balancing act, but she cannot resist her dashing - but already married - Robert Dudley.

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Review:

"[Weir] gets right inside the head of the Virgin Queen. The reader has a blissful sense of seeing history as it happens." (Kate Saunders The Times)

"Elizabeth explodes from the page, a full-blooded woman, all desire, passion and vulnerability . . . a breathtaking story of secrets and lies." (Kate Williams, author of BECOMING QUEEN and JOSEPHINE)

"Politics, historical detail and unfulfilled love in Alison Weir's endlessly fascinating account of Elizabeth I's attempt reconcile her personal passions with public life . . . The sheer weight of Weir’s scholarship underpins the narrative, making it endlessly fascinating." (Sunday Express)

"The captivating, tempestuous, often hilarious and ultimately poignant story of the extraordinary love affair between Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley" (Historical Novel Review)

"With the vogue for Tudor history at its height, this is a brilliant novel that focuses on the volatile relationship with Elizabeth I and the charismatic Lord Dudley." (Woman and Home)

Book Description:

Bestselling historian Alison Weir brings all her knowledge of Elizabeth I to vivid life in a novel of intrigue, sex, plots, mysteries and tragedies, with all the colour and pageantry of the Tudor court.

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