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Book Review of The Queen's Fool (Plantagenet and Tudor, Bk 12)

The Queen's Fool (Plantagenet and Tudor, Bk 12)
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its winter,1553.pursued by the Inquisition,hannah green,a 14 year old jewish girl ,is forced to flee Spain with her father.but hannah is no ordinary refugee.her gift of 'sight',the ability to forsee the future,is priceless in the troubled times of tthe tudor court.hannah is adopted by the glamorus robert dudley,the charismatic son of king edward's protector,who brings her to court as a 'holy fool' for queen mary and ultimately queen elizabeth.hired as a fool but working as a spy:promised in wedlock but in love with her master:endangered by the laws against heresy,treason and witchcraft,hannah must choose between the safe life of a commoner and the dangerous intrigues of the royal family that are inextricably bound up in her own yearnings and desires.