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The Shadow Queen

By: Anne O'Brien
Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
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Summary

From the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Queen's Choice. A tale of treachery, power-hungry families and legal subterfuges. Woven through it is a remarkable story of a beautiful girl, desirable as a bride, growing to be a woman of foresight and power.

A story of love and loyalty and of the cost of personal ambition. The story of the woman who would ultimately wield power as the King Mother to 10-year-old King Richard II.

©2017 Anne O'Brien (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
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Princess Joan sounds the most amazing person and it was lovely reading about all her exploits.

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The shadow Queen.

Struggled to persevere. Seemed to be mainly a narrative, circling the same story line, with little colour or detail. I did not have a picture of these events or the characters. I found the narrator flat and irritating. I'm usually entranced by similar books. I'm sure this is not a reflection of other books by this author.

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fantastic

loved it. great listen. great story and very easy to listen to. love it love

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Books by Anne Obrien

I regularly listen to these books on audible this auther is becoming a great favourite.

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Finished just as it was getting interesting!

Most novels likes this, including others by this author, take the story to the end of the heroines life. This finished leaving the reader in mid-air! Not very satisfactory.

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Was not the best of all my audiobooks but certainly entertaining. Not sure I would look for more from this author.

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Disappointing

This is the story of an amazing woman, I was so sad to be so bored by the telling

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