The best-selling author of The Other Boleyn Girl brilliantly depicts what life must have been like with maniacal Henry VIII from the perspective of three women close to him…

Gregory not only gives a fascinating account of palace life but a harrowing first-person glimpse of Kitty's final hours before her beheading (miraculously, Anne was spared a similar fate). If only grade-school history books were written so vividly. A-