I just finished The Other Boleyn Girl and I must admit, it was better than I expected. I've owned the book since it was first published and keep starting and stopping over the past few years.
I haven't had enough of Tudor England so I've picked up, again, Alison Weir's history 6 Wives of Henry VIII. If you never read anything by her, she's a best selling popular historian from Britian who I highly recommend. She's really fun to read, as opposed to Antonia Fraser who I find really, really dry. Fraser wrote The Wives of Henry VIII.
Weir, a few days ago, just released her first Historical Fiction novel -- Innocent Traitor -- about Lady Jane Grey (takes place after Henry VIII dies and his young son Edward - by Jane Seymour - is on the throne). So far it's only available in the UK.
The pictures are of a Yoeman Warder at the Tower of London and my husband Jim at Hampton Court (built by Cardinal Wolsey and taken by Henry -- BTW bricks were the newest, and most expensive, building material in Henrys time). Both locations are in the book. Boy I wish I could wrinkle my nose like Samantha in Bewitched and have us all there on May 19 -- would that be great or what!
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