One of the most fascinating books I have read lately is The White Queen: A Novel (Cousins’ War) by Philippa Gregory.

Gregory has been a favorite of mine for awhile now, when I first picked up The Other Boleyn Girl and started an obsession that consisted of reading and viewing everything I could about the Tudor dynasty. In The White Queen: A Novel (Cousins’ War), Gregory explores the generation before the Tudors with the “cousins war” or as its more widely known, The War of the Roses.

She explains the story behind The White Queen below:

Rarely have a I seen a writer like Gregory – she is truly the best and grabs you with the very first word. I could not put this book down, as the story of Elizabeth Woodville is so captivating you’d think the whole of it was made up. But Gregory, as we know, does her research. While so very little is known about Elizabeth Woodville and her sons, Edward and Richard who are rumored to have been killed in their beds (but no one knows for sure, because the bodies were never found and no one came forward to say that they have killed them), Gregory does a wonderful job of piecing this together. Elizabeth Woodville is one of the most interesting characters in history, and Gregory not only brought her to life but also did a brilliant job of promoting The White Queen with her Elizabeth Woodville tweets on Twitter. She has the whole of them here on her website if you missed them the first time around.

I was happy to see that this is the first in a new series focusing on the Plantagenet family, and look forward to more books by this brilliant author!

Image: Philippa Gregory

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