The Innocent
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the historical fiction book The Innocent by Posie Graeme-Evans.
The year is 1450, a dangerous time in medieval Britain. Civil unrest is at its peak and the legitimacy of the royal family is suspect. Meanwhile, deep in the forests of western England, a Baby is born. Powerful forces plot to kill both mother and child, but somehow the newborn girl survives. Her name is Anne. Fifteen years later, England emerges into a fragile but hopeful new age, with the charismatic young King Edward IV on the throne. Anne now a young peasant girl, joins the household of a wealthy London Merchant. Her unusual beauty provokes jealousy, lust, and intrigue, but Anne has a special quality that saves her: a vast knowledge of healing herbs. News of her extraordinary gift spreads and she is called upon to save the ailing queen. Soon after, Anne is moved into the palace, where she finds her destiny with the man who will become the greatest love of her life - - the king himself.
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The innocent was first published on March 30th 2003 by Atria Books, the first in a trilogy (Followed by The Exiled in 2005 and The Beloved in 2006) three more books The Dressmaker (2010) The Island house (2012) and Wild Wood (2015) have followed since then.
I found this book by accident and pretty much bought it on a whim, I'd gone into a Waterstones purely for a gander as I love me a good bookshop wander and stumbled across it in the historical fiction area. Since I'm a lover of historical fiction especially around the wars of the roses/Plantagenet/Tudor era it fell in my reading range. What I love about this book is it follows a characters rise through her own merits as she grows up and finds out not only her own history but about herself. As such I highly recommend it to all those who love this genre and give the book a 9/10.
Born to a novelist named Eleanor and an RAF Pilot in Nottingham, England, Graeme Evens spent her childhood travelling around accompanying her parents to Egypt during the Suez Crisis and to Cyprus during the Turkish-Greek Cypriot conflicts in the process. She also bounced around several schools including The Fahan School in Hobart, Tasmania and the Wilderness school in Adelaide south Australia, where she topped the state in Ancient History. Graeme-Evans went onto marry her first husband Tim Jacobs in 1971 and a year later in 1972 whilst studying at Flinders University had her first daughter.
At 25 Graeme-Evens got her first job with a New Zealand TV props department, eventually climbing the ladder as an assistant editor then editor with the Tasmanian Film Corporation, her credits include sound and picture assistant editor for “Fatty and George” and “Manganine” as well as various documentaries. During the '80's Graeme-Evens would end up being on the production teams of various successful TV shows, In 1990 Graeme-Evens married her second husband Andrew Blaxland (What a surname!!!) later on co-founding the production company Millennium Pictures. In November 2005 Graeme-Evens resigned from Nine to take up a multi-book deal with Simon and Schuster resulting in the publishing of six books since then.
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