Women of the Cousins’ War: The Duchess, The Queen and the King’s Mother

338pp plus sections of colour illustrations. Black cloth-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Genealogical tables etc. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket, some mild creasing and short, closed nick on rear upper edge. An examination of three women largely forgotten by history but who feature in Philippa Gregory’s ‘Cousin’s War’ series of novels: Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort. With an introduction by Gregory discussing the differences between writing history and writing historical fiction.