It’s not that the author doesn’t have intriguing ideas about her characters, she does - but she always backs away at the last moment when faced with the prospect of actually developing them into something substantial. While her non-fiction books are dodgy and poorly sourced enough that switching to fiction was probably a wise move, ironically, her fiction suffers greatly from her tendency to cling to the established record (or her take on it, which isn’t always the same thing.) This extremely disappointing novel, which weighs in at a substantial 530 pages, leaves the reader with a frustrating sense of being perpetually stuck in first gear. Alison Weir has written numerous popular histories centered around the Tudor era and recently has expanded to writing novels based on the same.
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