Test your skills & outwit your opponents with as much foresight as Beth Harmon on the hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit.
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A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, from the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory. The rivalry between Queen Mary & her half-sister Elizabeth is played out against a background of betrayal, conflict & passion. The savage rivalry of the daughters of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor & Elizabeth, mirrors that of their mothers, Katherine of Aragon & Anne Boleyn. Each will fight by any available means for the crown & future of the kingdom. Elizabeths bitter struggle to claim the throne she believes is hers by right, & the man she desires almost more than her crown, is watched by her ?fool?: a girl who has been forced to leave her homeland of Spain, as a Jew fleeing the Inquisition. In a court where truth is wittily denied & lies are mere games, it is the fool who can speak plainly: in these dangerous times, a woman must choose between ambition & love. Elizabeth will not make the same mistakes as her mother.