The child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she is merely a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, Jane Grey was born during the harrowingly turbulent period between Anne Boleyn's beheading and the demise of Jane's infamous great-uncle, King Henry VIII. It is the story of Lady Jane Grey-"the Nine Days' Queen"-a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century. Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir's enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. I am to die when I have hardly begun to live. Thus it was wonderful to be creative, and even provocative, at the same time as being historically accurate to a degree'.I am now a condemned traitor. No longer was I tied to sources and to the strict discipline of historical interpretation, but I could give my imagination free rein. 'After publishing nine history books, writing this novel filled me with a heady sense of freedom.
Having been the victim of abuse in childhood, she was sold into an unhappy marriage and forced to accept a crown she did not want, then tragically paid the price of her so-called treason.
She was a young girl of royal blood who was used by greedy and unscrupulous men to satisfy their own ambitions. Alison Weir states: 'Lady Jane Grey's story is compelling and shocking.
Her honesty, intelligence and strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion. As a great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, she lived a live in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. She has chosen as her subject the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England, Lady Jane Grey.
Alison Weir, our pre-eminent popular historian, has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction.
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