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She examines, among others, Cecily Neville, who was deprived of being queen when her husband died at the Battle of Wakefield; Elizabeth Woodville, the commoner who married Edward IV in secret; Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, whose love and ambition for her son knew no bounds.Until now, the lives of these women have remained little known to the general public. Sarah Gristwood tells their \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘For viewers who plan to settle in with ‘The White Queen’, one recent work of history will guide them through the distaff maze of the Wars of the Roses: ‘Blood Sisters’ by Sarah Gristwood’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent\u003c\/p\u003e           \u003cp\u003e‘In this gem of a book, she effortlessly weaves the dramatic, often tragic, lives of seven royal women…If you treat yourself to one history book this Christmas, make it this one. 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Her stories were made memorable by the iconic films they inspired, three of them classic Hitchcock chillers. But it was her sisters, writer Angela and artist Jeanne,who found the courage to defy the conventions that hampered Daphne's emotional life.In this group biography they are considered side by side, as they were in life, three sisters who grew up during the 20th century in the glamorous hothouse of a theatrical family dominated by a charismatic and powerful father. 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Highly recommended. -- Professor Quassim Cassam","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832683905367,"sku":"9780141977621","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141977621.jpg?v=1710336689"},{"product_id":"the-shepherds-life-9780141979366","title":"The Shepherds Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNUMBER ONE BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Affectionate,  evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape  and a disappearing way of life. I love this book''  Nigel Slater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Triumphant, a pastoral for the 21st century'' Helen Davies, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times, \u003c\/i\u003eBooks of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The nature publishing sensation of the year, unsentimental yet luminous'' Melissa Harrison, \u003ci\u003eThe Times, \u003c\/i\u003eBooks of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome people''s lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks'' isn''t. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons and the work they demand, and has been for hundreds of years. A Viking would understand the work they do: sending the sheep to the fells in the summer and making the hay; the autumn fairs where the flocks are replenished; the gruelling toil of winter when the sheep must be kept alive, and the light-headedness that comes with spring, as the lambs are born and the sheep get ready to return to the fells.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo pages into \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Life\u003c\/i\u003e, I was gripped. Twenty pages in, I was amazed. By its end, I knew I'd read an extraordinary book, at once political and beautiful - a major addition to the modern British literature of landscape, that can stand alongside Ronald Blythe's classic\u003ci\u003e Akenfield\u003c\/i\u003e as a portrait of a place and its people as seen from within -- Robert Macfarlane\u003cbr\u003eA very good book -- Alan Bennett\u003cbr\u003eAffectionate, evocative, illuminating. A story of survival - of a flock, a landscape and a disappearing way of life. I love this book -- Nigel Slater, author of Toast and The Kitchen Diaries\u003cbr\u003eBloody marvellous -- Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk\u003cbr\u003eA powerful - and quietly electrifying - meditation... Page by page, he builds what amounts to a 21st-century pastoral manifesto. The book is an unsentimental education, part history of farming in the Lake District, part personal memoir. And yet it still soars... Rebanks's prose is beautifully sure-footed -- Helen Davies * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable achievement... Utterly unsentimental, \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Life\u003c\/i\u003e is, nevertheless, profoundly moving... The human values that imbue \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Life\u003c\/i\u003e are, perhaps, ones that Britain, disillusioned and scandal weary, could do with being reminded of right now -- Melissa Harrison * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eRebanks's enthusiasm and talent for poetic writing is infectious... [His] words create not only a gorgeous landscape painting of the Lake District and its inhabitants, human, animal, bird and fish, but also a useful social document... What is most striking about this book is its authenticity; this is the real thing -- Carol Midgley * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully detailed and candid account of a life that is both individual and typical of this role in rural society... told with perfect pitch, in prose that flows as easily as speech, cleaves hungrily to the particular, and shifts without strain between the workaday and the imaginative -- David Craig * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAbsorbing, often funny, and beautifully written... a testament to the importance of maintaining a connection to the land * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eCaptivating... A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that's increasingly about mobility and self-invention. Hugely compelling -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eExceptional... Rebanks's way with words is akin to  that of that of an expert shearer with the clippers - swift, deft, skilled - and the resulting prose is lean, vivid, tough and handsome. I loved his book. It is one to restore faith in writing and the business of publishing - a story not like any other, told from the inside by someone whose passion for his subject lights up almost every sentence -- Tom Fort * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eAn unforgettable survivor's book that raises important questions, not least about education... one of the most truthful depictions of contemporary rural life that I have read -- Richard Benson * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eMore than a tribute to a rare and doughty tribe. If hills could speak, this is surely a tale the fells would tell -- Horatio Clare * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eAn enlightening, exquisitely written account... I was beguiled by this book, an eloquent love-letter to a cherished way of life -- Brian Viner * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eMay well do for sheep what Helen Macdonald did for hawks -- Stephen Moss * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003ePunchy, well-read and occasionally lyrical...  a glorious book, alive with the author's voice, which is strong and individual, as befits a man who makes a living in this ancient but precarious way. Most striking is its honesty * Herald Scotland *\u003cbr\u003eRebanks offers a fascinating account of his life in farming that is in equal parts memoir, social commentary and procedural. Even for the most committed urbanite, it's a brilliant read -- Alexander Larman * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eJames Rebanks's unsentimental, sharply detailed memoir about his life as a shepherd gripped me from the first page -- Moira Hodgson * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eA timely and important book, with flashes of beauty in its spare and honest prose -- Sadie Jones, author of The Outcast\u003cbr\u003eIn James Rebanks we hear a new voice from the fells. The toil and the beauty in \u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Life\u003c\/i\u003e are utterly compelling -- Nicholas Crane, author of Coast\u003cbr\u003eA vivid, honest, unforgettably written account not just of one shepherd's year, but of an ancient way of life -- Lucy Dillon, author of A Hundred Pieces of Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a reader's delight. No tourist wandering the iconic Lake District is Rebanks; coming from centuries of farmers he is as 'hefted' to the fells as the Herdwick sheep he keeps. He lives, breathes and works his landscape - which gives him an inside edge as sharp as shears over most of the flock of current countryside-writers. Rebanks has written a marvellous autobiography - of himself, his family, and the hills themselves. For they are indivisible -- John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland\u003cbr\u003eWhat came through was the stolid humility, gentle stubbornness and genuine care you need to live this life. Many books are written about a thing but this book is \u003ci\u003eof \u003c\/i\u003ea thing and is valuable for it -- Cynan Jones, author of The Dig\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shepherd's Life\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare thing, a well-written book about the life of the land by a man who gets his living from the land. It's a paean for a peopled landscape, and a powerful counterblast to the doleful environmentalism that would empty our land of its people -- Philip Walling, author of Counting Sheep\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully written -- Alan Cumming, actor and author of Not My Father's Son\u003cbr\u003eIrreverent, honest, achingly beautiful and totally authentic. Rebanks challenges us to understand what would be lost if no one remembers the seasons of a shepherd's life or the culture of sheep farming. His joy is as contagious as his writing -- Linda Lear, author of Beatrix Potter: The extraordinary life of a Victorian genius\u003cbr\u003eTruly extraordinary... written with a mastery of vivid, concrete detail that makes you gasp * WI Life *\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful book which will surely become a Lake District classic. Powerfully written and unflinchingly honest, it provides a vivid insight into the realities of hill farming life -- Angus J L Winchester, Professor of Local \u0026amp; Landscape History, Lancaster University\u003cbr\u003eA gorgeous book, unsentimental but exultant, vivid and profound, and a fierce defense of small-scale farming -- Maryn McKenna * National Geographic *\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully told tale suffused by a profound sense of belonging and a clear-eyed love of the land and its people. * Sunday Morning Herald *\u003cbr\u003eHis prose is earthed and conversational; it feels as if you're leaning over a gate, listening to his ruminations. The book exudes tough passion, and a sense of belonging and love that holds you rapt to the very last line * Intelligent Life *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47832684593495,"sku":"9780141979366","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141979366.jpg?v=1710336705"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/collections\/biography.jpg?v=1711046808","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/biography.oembed?page=7","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}