Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen

Critics Review

• This six-book series looks likely to become a landmark in historical fiction

  The Times

• Alison Weir gives a fresh take on Jane Seymour’s life . . . A brilliant and engaging read

  Good Housekeeping

• Gripping and utterly compelling . . . Henry VIII’s third and – allegedly – best-loved wife is brought vividly to life . . . Not to be missed

  Tracy Borman

• Written with the verve of fiction and the authority of history, this is a Jane who is neither a puppet, a pious victim nor a po-faced schemer, but a living, breathing woman, launched on her own emotional journey. Meticulous research is magically transformed into a riveting narrative which takes us into the places non-fiction history cannot reach. It’s what Alison Weir does better than anybody – and what historical fiction was created to do

  Sarah Gristwood

• Deft, authoritative biographical fiction

  Kirkus Reviews

• This brilliant book is a bombshell! Jane Seymour the shy mouse type? Think again! . . . She is vibrant, determined and she sets the King’s court on fire . . . A magnificent novel – you’ll never forget her!

  Kate Williams

• Hugely enjoyable . . . Alison Weir knows her subject and has a knack for the telling and textural detail

  Daily Mail

• Combining her authority as a historian with her skill as a novelist, in telling Jane Seymour’s story Alison has once again brought the past enthrallingly to life, as only she can. The Haunted Queen is another classic – in the great tradition of historical fiction

  Josephine Ross

• Vivid characters and a wonderful sense of time and place combine with the story of a gentle, kind heroine who I really cared about, the more so because she was so cruelly robbed of her life at the moment of her greatest happiness

  Barbara Erskine

• Weir does an excellent job of bringing the pages of history to life; creating living, breathing characters with flaws and weaknesses like our own

  Bookbag

• Weir’s impressive novel shows why Jane deserves renewed attention . . . This third volume in Weir’s exceptional Six Tudor Queens series offers new angles on its earlier subjects [Katherine and Anne] . . . Weir keeps the tension high, breathing new life into a familiar tale and making us wish for a different ending

  Booklist

• This retelling portrays Jane as a lady of principle. Meticulously researched and richly rewarding

  Candis Magazine

• A triumph of fine detail and research and offers a complex depiction of an endlessly fascinating woman

  Elizabeth Fremantle

• Alison Weir’s wonderfully detailed novel offers a spellbinding solution to the mystery of Anne [Boleyn’s] true nature . . . Enthralling

  Sarah Gristwood

• Well researched and engrossing

  Good Housekeeping

• Alison Weir makes history come alive as no one else

  Barbara Erskine