Behold the Bird in Flight

A Novel of an Abducted Queen

Terri Lewis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2025
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-64742-910-2 (ISBN)

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Romantic and stubborn, eleven-year-old Isi plans to marry for love and be mistress of her own castle. But life in 1198 is full of threat and a series of tragic events teaches her growing up is hard. When Isi falls for Hugh, a French nobleman, he consents to marry her, but only for her dowry. She longs for more. Hoping a jealous man will fall in love, she flirts with a king. The flirtation backfires: King John abducts and marries her. Now trapped in cold, warring England with a malicious husband, Isi must hide her yearning for Hugh and find her own power. If she fails, she won't live to return to her beloved. Inspired by real historical figures -- Isabelle d'Angouleme, Hugh de Lusignan, and King John of Magna Carta fame -- Behold the Bird in Flight is set in a period that valued women only for their dowries and childbearing. Isabelle's story has been mainly erased by men, but the medieval chronicles suggest a woman who developed her own power and wielded it -- in court and in bed. And as the woman behind the throne, who's to say she didn't influence history?

Erscheinungsdatum	19.05.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Historische Romane
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-64742-910-2 / 1647429102
ISBN-13	978-1-64742-910-2 / 9781647429102
Zustand	Neuware