About the Author:
JANE STEVENSON was born in London and brought up in London, Beijing, and Bonn. She teaches literature and history at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Several Deceptions, a collection of four novellas; a novel, London Bridges; and the acclaimed historical trilogy made up of the novels The Winter Queen, The Shadow King, and The Empress of the Last Days. Stevenson lives in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
From Booklist:
*Starred Review* This sophisticated novel has the feel of years of planning--not because it is overdone but because it is intricate, vastly knowledgeable, and well thought out. It is the concluding volume of a trilogy that reimagines the life of Elizabeth of Bohemia, sister of England's Charles I and a lively figure in seventeenth-century politics; it follows The Winter Queen (2002) and The Shadow King (2003) and brings Stevenson's interpretation of the queen's life and lasting effect up to the present day. The trilogy's two previous volumes wondered what would have happened if Elizabeth of Bohemia had married--a second time, and clandestinely--a black African prince and former slave. And now, in her infinite creativity, the author unleashes a group of scholars to unearth and interpret a trove of documents establishing the veracity of that long-ago situation and thus the precedence of an alternative family line of claimants to the British throne. So, who is the rightful monarch of Britain--the current occupant, Queen Elizabeth II, or a black scientist in Barbados? As much about competition in academe as about alternate versions of history, this novel is reminiscent in its learned tone of the works of A. S. Byatt. Brad Hooper
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