by Jean Plaidy · Mondadori. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439709312
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«El cardo y la rosa» is the historical novel by Jean Plaidy, published by Mondadori in paperback (393 pages, in Spanish).
Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, marries James IV of Scotland to seal peace between the two kingdoms. Widowed, she is caught between her loyalty to England and to her son, the new king; she faces a scandalous second marriage and clashes with Henry VIII. Her descendants will eventually unite the two crowns.
Translation by M.ª José Buxó-Dulce and Joaquín Voltes of the original The thistle and the rose; eighth installment of the Tudor saga.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Tudor court and the conflicts between England and Scotland.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
