Friday, April 2, 2010

Friday Finds at the Bookstore

Pub date: May 2007 (In Stores Now)
Format: Paperback 400 pp

Synopsis: (From the Publisher)
Beautiful and brilliant, Eleanor is the daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering court is the twelfth-century birthplace of courtly love. For all of the duke’s boasts that Eleanor has the brains of a man and the soul of a warrior, everyone knows that a girl of fifteen cannot possibly hold the richest dukedom in France. Everyone, that is, except her dying father, who insists on leaving Eleanor his most valuable provinces---and making her prey to the first baron who rides in to kidnap her.
Eleanor, though, is not content to sit idly by and let herself become a victim, and devises a plan to marry the heir to the throne of France. While her alliance to Louis VII may be a dazzling one, her husband is a cautious man whose wit and courage do not always match Eleanor’s own, and she ultimately finds herself seeking an even greater match with Henry II of England. Sweeping from the courts of Paris to the perils of the Crusades, Duchess of Aquitaine gloriously illuminates the life of one of the most powerful, resourceful, and fascinating women in all of history.


9 comments:

Katy said...

I love the cover! :)

Passages to the Past said...

I've been on the fence with this one, I look forward to seeing what you think.

The cover is really pretty!

Unknown said...

I read this one last year. If I remember correctly it does not cover her life as Queen of England but I enjoyed the look at her earlier years in France. Hope that's not a spoiler!!

Priya Parmar said...

i am excited to read this! curious to read your review...

Kim Bullock said...

Gorgeous cover!

Blodeuedd said...

I agree with all the cover lovers

Staci said...

That cover would so make me pick up this book to investigate it further!

Mystica said...

I read a book by Jean Plaidy on Eleanor of Aquitaine and the story was fascinating. An extremely strong and decisive woman in history.

ChristyEnglish said...

I adore everything about Eleanor...and I agree, what a gorgeous cover...