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Red Rose, White Rose
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Cecily Neville grows up within the powerful Neville family and is betrothed as a child to Richard, Duke of York. Told through Cecily and her fictional half-brother Cuthbert, the novel follows the marriage as Richard’s royal descent, territorial power and political rivalry with the Lancastrian court draw the couple towards open conflict.
Cecily becomes the mother of Edward IV, George of Clarence and Richard III while enduring campaigns, exile, imprisonment and bereavement. Her birth into a Lancastrian household and marriage into the Yorkist cause give the novel its central division, using one family’s relationships to trace the escalation of the Wars of the Roses.
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