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   Feb 28, 2022 · The spellbinding new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Anne O’Brien. England, 1444. Three women challenge the course of history…. King Henry VI’s grip on the crown hangs by a thread as the Wars of the Roses starts to tear England apart.

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   Mar 31, 2022 · Using their feminine wiles, wisdom and courage, our three visionary Paston women face enormous challenges both within and outside their homes as civil war rages and enemies – motivated by greed...

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   Sep 16, 2021 · England, 1444. Three women challenge the course of history…. King Henry VI’s grip on the crown hangs by a thread as the Wars of the Roses starts to tear England apart. And from the ashes of war, the House of Paston begins its rise to power.

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   • Author: Anne O'brien

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   The Royal Game. Written by Anne O’Brien. Review by Tracey Warr. The novel opens with a dispute over a will between mother and son, Agnes Paston and John Paston, which sets the tenor of the book. The Pastons are a litigious family, based in Norfolk. Their story is told from the perspectives of three women: Margaret Paston, John’s capable ...

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   Feb 8, 2024 · Reviews ‘A wonderfully immersive and intriguing read, meticulously researched. I was completely captivated.’ Barbara Erskine author of Lady of Hay ‘A gripping historical novel that captures the turbulent rise of one of the most influential families of the Middle Ages in rich and exciting detail’

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   Sep 16, 2021 · The Royal Game by Anne O’Brien is published on 16 September, 2021. Anne has written about how women were used to build wealth and power through strategic alliances in To have and to hold: pawns in the medieval marriage game.

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   • An inspirational story of courage and resilience, The Royal Game charts the rise of three remarkable women from obscurity to the very heart of Court politics and intrigue. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

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   Is the Royal game based on a true story?

   • The movie version of The Royal Game opens in the mid-1940s as an obviously shaken man, Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci), is sailing from Europe to the US with his wife, Anna (Birgit Minichmayr). But once aboard the ship, he starts to fall apart very fast and it turns out that much of what we think we know about him is not true or not exactly true.

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   • The Royal Game is a difficult film to watch and it provides no easy answers. The film seems to be saying that what is taken from victims by the Nazis can never be returned and there is nothing to be learned by simply surviving.

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   • While there are many movies that depict the horrors perpetrated by the Nazis, it may sound as if The Royal Game would be perhaps less distressing than most movies about the Holocaust, but this is not the case.

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   Apr 25, 2022 · Although the film is not particularly long – it runs 110 minutes – the viewer very much gets the feeling of being trapped along with Bartok and it is a harrowing experience. The Royal Game is a...