Fortune's wheel

By Rhoda Edwards

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385115822
• ISBN13: 9780385115827
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Compelling work of historical fiction

Set between 1468 and 1472, in England, France and Flanders, this is a compelling and exciting historical novel with a formidable cast of characters. An account of the youth and testing time of the young Duke of Gloucester during the tumultuous Wars of the Roses. A sympathetic portrait of Richard and of Anne, the young girl used as a pawn by her scheming and ambitious father, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick and forced to marry the Prince of Wales Edouard , son of the weak Henry VI and his redoubtable and ruthless Queen, Margaret of Anjou. Richard looks up to his older brother Edward IV, a towering and formidable leader, and scheming and intrigue leads to a showdown between Edward and Warwick, with the treacherous and insecure Duke of Clarence (Edward and Richard's other brother) playing off the two noblemen against each other. Meanwhile the nemesis of the House of York, Queen Margaret holds the House of Lancaster together despite the feebleness of Henry VI, but ultimately destroys it. The novel ends with the triumph of Edward IV, and the death in the Battle of Tewkesbury of both Warwick and Henry's son Prince Edouard. Queen Margaret is captured and imprisoned, and King Edward's power is secured. But poor young Anne flees, and becomes a lowly servant girl in a cruel trick of circumstances, in which Clarence plays a villainous role She is eventually rescued by and betrothed to Richard. A compelling, richly written, descriptive but action packed work of historical fiction.