NY Post, Liz Smith column:

What a book! Ms. Gregory not only knows her history, she is a master of characterization, vividly conveying three women, three separate personalities, three realities who grip the reader from the first page to the stunning conclusion...

I am full of admiration for the author's graceful and compelling mix of undisputed fact and the use of fiction based on the knowledge of those facts, of that bloody terrifying era, and of human nature.

This is no mere bodice-ripper, with heaving bosoms and over-ripe dialogue. This is literature and life.