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Queens' Play

Book Two in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles

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Queens' Play

Auteur(s): Dorothy Dunnett
Narrateur(s): David Monteath
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 This second book in the legendary Lymond Chronicles follows Francis Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots.

Though she is only a little girl, the Queen is already the object of malicious intrigues that extend from her native country to the court of France. It is to France that Lymond must travel, exercising his sword hand and his agile wit while also undertaking the most unlikely of masquerades, all to make sure that his charge's royal person stays intact. Fiction Fiction de genre Historique Romance Redevances

Ce que les critiques en disent

“Expert entertainment. . . . Dunnett can describe a duel more convincingly than Dumas.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Dorothy Dunnett is a storyteller who could teach Scheherazade a thing or two about suspense, pace and invention.”
—The New York Times

“[Lymond] is arguably the perfect romantic hero.”
—The Guardian

“A masterpiece of historical fiction.”
—The Washington Post

“Dorothy Dunnett is one of the greatest talespinners since Dumas . . . breathlessly exciting.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Exciting, dangerous, fascinating.”
—The Boston Globe

“Dunnett is a name to conjure with. Her work exemplifies the best the genre can offer.”
—The Christian Science Monitor

“Ingenious and exceptional . . . its effect brilliant, its pace swift and colorful and its multi-linear plot spirited and absorbing.”
—Boston Herald

“Dunnett evokes the sixteenth century with an amazing richness of allusion and scholarship, while keeping a firm control on an intricately twisting narrative. She has another more unusual quality . . . an ability to check her imagination with irony, to mix high romance with wit.”
—Sunday Times (London)

“A very stylish blend of high romance and high camp. Her hero, the enigmatic Lymond, [is] Byron crossed with Lawrence of Arabia. . . . He moves in an aura of intrigue, hidden menace and sheer physical daring.”
—Times Literary Supplement (London)

“With shrewd psychological insight and a rare gift of narrative and descriptive power, Dorothy Dunnett reveals the color, wit, lushness . . . and turbulent intensity of one of Europe’s greatest eras.”
—Raleigh News and Observer
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In this novel, the second of a six volume series, the 3 queens are Mary of Guise, the dowager queen of Scotland, her daughter Mary Queen of Scots, and Catherine de Medici, Queen of France... and a 4th very powerful woman, Diane de Poitiers, mistress of the king of France, who is probably the wealthiest woman in Europe then (the 1550's). Mary Queen of Scots is about 8 years old, a royal child growing up in France at the court of Henri II. She is in great but not always obvious danger. Queens' Play has Scots, French, Irish and English characters, and the narrator, David Monteath does a superb job with all of them. I really enjoyed it. There are many exciting and anxious moments in the book, but one passage that I return to is when the Irish prince O'Liam Roe, exasperated and fierce, tells Lymond that he is a leader of men, and then the prince proceeds to tell Lymond just what it is to be a leader. His words have stayed with me. These 6 books of the Lymond Chronicles follow ten years in the life of Lymond = Francis Crawford, second son of a noble Scottish family (approximately 1548-1558). It is a hero's journey, but Francis Crawford is not any stereotypical hero. Instead, he is a brilliant, complex, flawed and compelling man, not simple or often easy to like... but his journey is that of a hero, and I'm grateful to have swum in the waters of his life. It is a very fine audiobook series, for those who like historical fiction.

3 queens, with special danger for the youngest.

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