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The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
by Alison Weir
While the author did what she could with what is available as primary sources, but let's face it, women...even powerful women...of that time period didn't have much written about them. That means that most of the book is really about what was happening around Margaret rather than her own views / thoughts / ideas.
So while it did fill in a lot of things I didn't know about the whole Stewart saga, it didn't give me much of an impression of the woman herself, other than the fact that she was like many women of the time and wielded a lot of power from the shadows.
I was disappointed with the narrator. Her attempt at various voices and accents made every person who was quoted sound ponderous, more pedantic than engaging. I would rather she'd just read the quotes in her own voice. The continual default to low and gravelly for people's voices wore on my nerves.
A decent book, though I recommend people read it rather than listen to it.
So while it did fill in a lot of things I didn't know about the whole Stewart saga, it didn't give me much of an impression of the woman herself, other than the fact that she was like many women of the time and wielded a lot of power from the shadows.
I was disappointed with the narrator. Her attempt at various voices and accents made every person who was quoted sound ponderous, more pedantic than engaging. I would rather she'd just read the quotes in her own voice. The continual default to low and gravelly for people's voices wore on my nerves.
A decent book, though I recommend people read it rather than listen to it.