I am so taken with the wonderful narration that I intend to look for other books by this brilliant and talented narrator.Īlthough I loved the story the narrator brought it to life. The story itself is wonderful and if you like a historical drama based on fact then this is certainly the book for you. She masters the characters voices complete with different dialects and accents and she does not falter. I had read the book in print on its release but of late I have had to rely more on audio books and was struggling with the transition but on hearing this beautiful narration I was completely hooked. For me, it is the beautiful narration by Patience Tomlinson that was the key to my enjoyment of this wonderful book. This is the first review I have written for an audio book but after listening to this wonderful story I felt I had to share my experience. (Mar.Where does Innocent Traitor rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? But Weir proves herself deft as ever describing Tudor food, manners, clothing, pastimes (including hunting and jousting) and marital politics.
Using multiple narrators, Weir tries to weave a conspiratorial web with Jane caught at the center, but the ever-changing perspectives prove unwieldy: Jane speaking as a four-year-old with a modern historian's vocabulary, for example, just doesn't ring true. When Edward dies, Lord and Lady Dorset maneuver the throne for their 16-year-old daughter, risking her life as well as increased violence between Protestants and Catholics. Not even the beheadings of Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard deter parental ambition.
Jane relishes lessons in music, theology, philosophy and literature, but struggles to master courtly manners as her mother demands. As Weir tells it, Jane's parents, the Marquess and Marchioness of Dorset, groom her from infancy to be the perfect consort for Henry's son, Prince Edward, entrusting their daughter to a nurse's care while they attend to affairs at court. Weir's heroine is Lady Jane Grey (1537–1554), whose ascension to the English throne was briefly and unluckily promoted by opponents of Henry's Catholic heir, Mary. , etc.) makes her historical fiction debut with this coming-of-age novel set in the time of Henry VIII.
Popular biographer Weir ( Eleanor of Aquitaine
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