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Lofts first novel, i met a gypsy, won the american booksellers award for 1935. Within the framework of known fact and detail drawn from hitherto unexploited contemporary spanish sources, a novelists imagination and understanding have provided motives, thoughts, and private conversations, helping to build up the fascinating character isabella must. Beside biography of norah lofts, we also provide a lot of biographies of other famous people. This one, focusing on isabella i of spain, fascinated me because of the way it detailed how the royal families intermarried and betrothed children from the cradle in the hopes of creating alliances that would prevent warsobviously, often unsuccessfully. She was a bestselling author on both sides of the atlantic, was born in norfolk. Buy a cheap copy of the lute player book by norah lofts. Group read crown of aloes by peggy 46 posts 14 views last updated mar 07, 2016 07. Within the framework of known fact and detail drawn from hitherto unexploited contemporary spanish sources, a novelists imagination and understanding have provided motives. The narrative has pace, the characters substance, the finale a powerful twist and the sense of period is rich and authentic the sunday times. Norah lofts was one of the bestknown and bestloved of all historical novelists, known for her authentic application of period detail to all her books. Isabella of spain was a great woman, a great queen. Norah lofts s tales of royal britain have stood the test of time.
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