by Jean Plaidy · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401467134
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«La guerra de las reinas» is the historical novel by Jean Plaidy, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (456 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the first half of the thirteenth century, the novel pits two powerful women against each other: Isabella of Angoulême, widow of King John of England, and Blanche of Castile, wife of King Louis VIII of France. Their mutual rivalry and ambition shape the fate of the English and French kingdoms in an age of alliances, betrayals and courtly intrigues.
Fifth title in Jean Plaidy's Plantagenet saga; originally published as «Battle of the Queens».
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Middle Ages, the English and French monarchy and fictionalised biographies of powerful women.
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.
