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Simon & Schuster
June 2015
On Sale: June 9, 2015
Featuring: Penelope Devereux; Robert Cecil
560 pages
ISBN: 1476703124
EAN: 9781476703121
Kindle: B00P434DPG
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From “a brilliant new player in the court of royal fiction”
(People), comes the mesmerizing story of Lady
Penelope Devereux—the daring young beauty in the Tudor
court, who inspired Sir Philip Sidney’s famous sonnets even
while she plotted against Queen Elizabeth. Penelope Devereux arrives at Queen Elizabeth’s court where
she and her brother, the Earl of Essex, are drawn into the
aging Queen’s favor. Young and naïve, Penelope, though
promised elsewhere, falls in love with Philip Sidney who
pours his heartbreak into the now classic sonnet series
Astrophil and Stella. But Penelope is soon married off to a
man who loathes her. Never fainthearted, she chooses her
moment and strikes a deal with her husband: after she gives
birth to two sons, she will be free to live as she chooses,
with whom she chooses. But she is to discover that the
course of true love is never smooth. Meanwhile Robert Cecil, ever loyal to Elizabeth, has his eye
on Penelope and her brother. Although it seems the Earl of
Essex can do no wrong in the eyes of the Queen, as his
influence grows, so his enemies gather. Penelope must draw
on all her political savvy to save her brother from his own
ballooning ambition and Cecil’s trap, while daring to plan
for an event it is treason even to think about. Unfolding over the course of two decades and told from the
perspectives of Penelope and her greatest enemy, the devious
politician Cecil, Watch the Lady chronicles the last
gasps of Elizabeth’s reign, and the deadly scramble for
power in a dying dynasty.
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