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david_r_grigg 's review for:
Blood and Roses
by Helen Castor
This is a fascinating look at the fortunes of one family the Pastons — during the turbulent period of the Wars of the Roses in the 15th Century. It is based on a huge trove of personal correspondence sent and received by the family during this time. The letters were miraculously preserved over the centuries and rediscovered in the early 19th Century.
Castor turns this material into a very readable story of the family and their circumstances, a unique insight into what it was like to live in England while all the political turmoil was going on.
Castor turns this material into a very readable story of the family and their circumstances, a unique insight into what it was like to live in England while all the political turmoil was going on.