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REVIEWS: Victoria
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Drawing on Queen Victoria’s diaries,
which she first started reading when she was a student at
Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin—creator and writer of the
new PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling
novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter—brings the
young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for
63 years, richly to life in this magnificent novel. Early one
morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday,
Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her
uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The
men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered
young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the
greatest nation in the world. On June 19th, 1837, she was a
teenager. On June 20th, 1837, she was a queen. Daisy Goodwin’s
impeccably researched and vividly imagined new book brings
readers Queen Victoria as they have never seen her before.
Characters: 68. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Historical
Fiction.
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