by Philippa Gregory · tapa dura · ISBN 9781476758817
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«The Taming of the Queen» is the historical novel by Philippa Gregory, published by Touchstone in hardcover (450 pages, in English).
Kateryn Parr, a thirty-year-old widow with a secret romance, is forced to marry Henry VIII. She wins the king's trust, unites the royal family, creates a study circle at court, and rules as regent. Her defense of religious reform and her independence lead to her being accused of heresy, punished by burning at the stake.
It belongs to the series The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels. In 2016 it won the Woman & Home Reader's Choice award for best historical saga.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Tudor period and the wives of Henry VIII.
Philippa Gregory is an English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. The best known of her works is The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which in 2002 won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been adapted into two films.
