W 'Kochanku dziewicy' mamy do czynienia z typową powieścią - chyba nie przesadzę jak napiszę - romansem. She welcomes visitors to her site Philippa's Facebook page: In 2018, she was awarded an Honorary Platinum Award by Nielsen for achieving significant lifetime sales across her entire book output. Philippa is a member of the Society of Authors and in 2016, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers’ Association. She is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff and an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University of London. She holds honorary degrees from Teesside University and the University of Sussex. Now a recognised authority on women’s history, Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex and received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made Alumna of the Year in 2009. Her flair for blending history and imagination developed into a signature style and Philippa went on to write many bestselling novels, including The Other Boleyn Girl and The White Queen. She wrote her first ever novel, Wideacre, when she was completing her PhD in eighteenth-century literature and it sold worldwide, heralding a new era for historical fiction. Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s foremost historical novelists. Passionate, fearful, emotionally needy, this is a queen who will stop at nothing. Then someone acts in secret, and for Elizabeth, Dudley and the emerging kingdom, nothing will be as planned.īlending historical fact with contemporary rumor, Philippa Gregory has created a dark and tense novel of Tudor times, which casts Elizabeth I in a light no one has suggested before. The very coin of England is shaved and clipped to nothing as Elizabeth uncertainly leads her bankrupt country into a war that no-one thinks can be won. Behind the triangle of lovers, the factions take up their places: the Protestants, the priests, the assassins, the diplomats and the moneymakers.

William Cecil, the queen's wisest counselor, knows she must marry for policy her uncle hates Dudley and swears he will be murder him first.

Others too oppose the marriage, but for very different reasons. She refuses to set her beloved husband free to marry the queen but she cannot prevent him from becoming the favorite and the focus of the feverishly plotting, pleasure seeking court.

From the author of The Other Boleyn Girl and The Queen's Fool comes a stunning portrait of the first perilous years of Elizabeth I's reign.Īs a new queen, Elizabeth faces two great dangers: the French invasion of Scotland, which threatens to put Mary Queen of Scots on her throne, and her passion for the convicted traitor Robert Dudley.īut Dudley is already married, and his devoted wife Amy will never give him up, least of all to an upstart Protestant Princess.

The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory