Castile for Isabella - Hardcover

Plaidy, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709111061 ISBN 13: 9780709111061

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, 1965

Synopsis

With fifteen-century Spain rent with intrigue and threatened by civil war, Isabella became the pawn of her ambitious, half-crazed mother and a virtual prisoner at the licentious court of her half-brother, Henry IV.

Was she, at sixteen, fated to be the victim of the Queen's revenge, the Archbishop's ambition and the lust of Don Pedro Giron, one of the most notorious lechers in Castile?

Numbed with grief and fear, Isabella yet remained steadfast in her determination to marry Ferdinand, the handsome young Prince of Aragon, her only true betrothed ...

About this title

Review:

"It's hard to better Jean Plaidy" (Daily Mirror)

"Superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of characterisation ... one of the country's most widely read novelists" (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

The first novel in Jean Plaidy's captivating Spanish Trilogy

About this edition

• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0709111061
• ISBN 13: 9780709111061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216