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This story concentrates on Mary Boleyn, who comes to King Henry VIII's court when she is only fourteen years old. She starts as a maid to the queen but very soon catches the eyes of the king and starts to like it. She does realize that she is just a pawn for her family and their ambitions to further themselves and launch their family into higher society. They encourage her to further the affair that she is having with the king. This affair lasts for a number of years which she bears a daughter Catherine and a son Henry. The family was very concerned that every time Mary was pregnant and confined to the bed the king would take a different lover and cut the Boleyn family off. To stop this from happening the family gets her sister Anne to flirt with the king and keep his interest. However Anne wants to have the king for her self and has lofty ambitions of becoming queen one day. Anne manages to keep the king waiting for her until the divorce between him and Katherine of Aragon is final. The end of Mary's story does in fact have a happy ending. Her first husband William dies of the plaugue but finds a new love who she marries and becomes the step father to the two children she had with the King. They spend the rest of their days in the country away from the court.
This book would appeal to the higher end of the YA group. This would be the high school students (grade 10-12). It is a cross over book from the adult fiction. It gives the reader just enough history to know that everything isn't made up but it also satisfies the need to know what the people might have been thinking. The book is similar to other historical fiction novels out their but the writing style of Philippa Gregory makes it really easy to read and understand. It would be a good starter book for someone who was trying to get into reading historical fiction.
Rating: 4/5
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