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COSTA AWARD FINALIST 
ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 

Film rights acquired by Gold Circle Films, the team behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen from the author of Queen of Scots, now a feature film starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie

“A fresh, thrilling portrait… Guy’s Elizabeth is deliciously human.”
–Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book Review

Elizabeth was crowned queen at twenty-five, but it was only when she reached fifty and all hopes of a royal marriage were behind her that she began to wield power in her own right. For twenty-five years she had struggled to assert her authority over advisers, who pressed her to marry and settle the succession; now, she was determined not only to reign but to rule. In this magisterial biography, John Guy

Elizabeth The Later Years

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      Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/03/2017
      ISBN13: 9780143110095, 978-0143110095
      ISBN10: 0143110098
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      COSTA AWARD FINALIST 
      ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 

      Film rights acquired by Gold Circle Films, the team behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

      A groundbreaking reconsideration of our favorite Tudor queen from the author of Queen of Scots, now a feature film starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie

      “A fresh, thrilling portrait… Guy’s Elizabeth is deliciously human.”
      –Stacy Schiff, The New York Times Book Review

      Elizabeth was crowned queen at twenty-five, but it was only when she reached fifty and all hopes of a royal marriage were behind her that she began to wield power in her own right. For twenty-five years she had struggled to assert her authority over advisers, who pressed her to marry and settle the succession; now, she was determined not only to reign but to rule. In this magisterial biography, John Guy

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