Alison Weir our pre-eminent popular historian has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction. She has chosen as her subject the bravest most sympathetic & wronged heroine of Tudor England Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father & a ruthless mother for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes she lived a life in thrall to political machinations & lethal religious fervour. Jane's astonishing & essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII & the cousin of Edward VI Mary I & Elizabeth I she grew up to realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Her honesty intelligence & strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics to her nine-day reign & its unbearably poignant conclusion.