title: The Fool's Tale: A Novel
author:  Nicole Galland 
description: Screenwriter Galland debuts impressively with a steamy historical romance about a medieval Welsh queen's love affair with the king's best friendhis profane, hyperactive royal fool. The year is 1198, and King Maelgwyn (mercifully nicknamed Noble) of Maelienydd has wed the young Englishwoman Isabel Mortimer in hopes of neutralizing her uncle Roger, a powerful baron with designs on Noble's small kingdom. But almost from their wedding night, the political marriage of Isabel and Noble is a disaster: she is headstrong and tomboyish, "far from his ideal"; he is temperamental, tyrannical and unwilling to give up "nonconjugal fornication." Even worse for Isabel is his unfathomable relationship with the fool Gwirion, whose outrageous pranks and lewd public performances humiliate her. But when Noble goes off to fight Roger Mortimer, a siege on the castle by an opportunistic Welsh prince forces Isabel and Gwirion to confront each other, and to finally acknowledge their traitorous passion. Galland creates memorable charactersparticularly Gwirionwho sound authentically regal yet earthy. She strikingly captures the murky Welsh setting and even murkier politics. The novel is occasionally short on plot, but readers will relish the energetic emotional back-and-forth of the protagonists' ceaseless trysting. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  THE FOOL, THE SCROOGE,
  AND
  THE SLUTTY ELF ON THE
  SHELF
  CASE FILE:03
  A KEAGAN HANDCUFFS AND LACE MYSTERY
   
   
   
   
   
  A Novel By,
  CHRISTINE GRAY
  
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