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Historical Fiction The White Queen Series: The Cousins War by Philippa Gregory England 1464

The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes in the Tower. The War of the Roses brought to vivid life through the women of the House of Lancaster and the House of York, beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen.

The Goldsmith’s Daughter by Tanya Landman 16 th Century Aztec Empire

In the golden city of Tenochtitlan, Emperor Montezuma rules with an iron rod and people live in fear of the gods. Itacate, a girl born under an ill-fated sky, is destined for a life of submission and domestic drudgery. But when her father, a goldsmith, discovers her talent for his craft, she starts to work as his apprentice, a secret she must keep. A young girl's struggle to change her destiny set against the destruction of the Aztec empire.

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell England 1596

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London and Hamnet… Hamnet doesn’t know what to do. Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, Hamnet is a story of the bond between twins and a marriage pushed to the brink by grief.