Doubleday Book Club main selection Literary Guild alternate major ad/promo. From the novel's opening, Gregory pretends to go into the mind of Margaret, attributing to her a feminist spirit in revolt against authority. Along the way she invented facts to sustain her opinion. Gregory effortlessly breathes color and life into a tale of obsession built around a ruthless, fascinating woman. A feminist red Queen Disregarding the good judgment of History, Philippa Gregory delivered a different verdict on the character of Margaret Beaufort. Beatrice marries also, managing to hide the paternity of two children sired by Harry until her increasing greed squeezes the land and its people dry, and the seeds of destruction she has sown come to their awful fruition. And while a bounteous harvest multiplies, no one gainsays the young squire and his sister, the true master of Wideacre. Their incestuous tangle is not broken even by Harry's marriage. Foiled in her hunger to own the estate by the 18th century laws of entail, Beatrice plots her father's death, knowing she can twist Harry in any direction she chooses, for her brother harbors a dark, perverted secret.
Beatrice Lacey loves nothing more than the family estate, Wideacrenot her bluff, hearty father, her weak brother, Harry, or her mother, who can't quite believe mounting evidence that damns her passionate daughter.
Gregory's full-blown first novel is a marvelously assured period piece, an English gothic with narrative verve.
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