This is medieval history at its best.' - Evening Standard 'Castor skillfully combines this analysis with driving narratives, using vivd details from contemporary chronicles to bring those distant days alive. She-Wolves is a superb history of the powerful women who have surrounded England's throne, combining blood-drenched drama, politics, sex and swordplay with scholarly analysis, symptahy for the plight of women and elegant writing.' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Daily Telegraph (London) 'A fascinating biography of four powerful English queens.An insightful look at issues still relevant today, related by an accomplished historian and storyteller.' - Kirkus Reviews 'Castor's deep research will please European, military, and women's historians, while tight storytelling makes this unusually fine royal history enjoyable reading for casual readers.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'She-Wolves makes for exceptional, even inspirational reading.' - BookPage 'Beautifully narrated. Castor is a fine scholar and an equally fine storyteller.' - Cleveland Plain Dealer ' an accomplished and elegant historian.' - Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book Review 'A gripping book. full of beautiful, imperiled ladies fearless knights and remarkable, often unbelievable turns of fortune.

I think readers will love this book, finding it wholly absorbing and rewarding.' - Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall 'Helen Castor's very readable She-Wolves is. She-Wolves offers a precise yet imaginative reading of the past. Without selling short the complex circumstances she describes, she brings to her narratives the kind of clarity that is a sign of absolute mastery of the material. 'Helen Castor has an exhilarating narrative gift.

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