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Title: Needs another Edit
Review: The book starts with the mention of twenty or names of various courtiers. It suffers from what many history books suffer - too many names and facts. This is a novel - the story of three people: Elizabeth, Devreux and Grania.The portrait of Elizabeth rings true, but not that of Grania. She speaks like a tough from Dublin, not a gentlewoman of the west of Ireland. Likely that characterisation arises from the fact that she is called a pirate in English records, She and her family were Gaelic-speaking. The author seems unaware of how different she was perceived in the Gaelic world - then and now.
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