Blood queen / Joanna Courtney.
Material type: TextSeries: Courtney, Joanna, Shakespeare's queens ; 1.Publisher: London : Piatkus, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 373 pages : genealogical table, map ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780349419503 (paperback)Subject(s): Gruoch, Queen, consort of Macbeth, King of Scotland -- Fiction | Macbeth, King of Scotland, active 11th century -- Fiction | Queens -- Scotland -- Fiction | Scotland -- Kings and rulers -- Fiction | Scotland -- History -- To 1057 -- FictionGenre/Form: Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Cold. Ruthless. Deadly. The myth of Lady Macbeth looms large. But behind the villainous portrait stands a real woman. This is her story... Scotland, 1020 AD - King Malcolm II is fading fast. It is North vs South, for two families have a claim on the inheritance of his crown. Who will gain the Scottish throne? On the eve of her 16th birthday, a flushed and nervous Cora MacDuff waits to marry her sweetheart, Macbeth. But her dreams are about to be stolen from her as the night she was hoping for turns into a brutal slaughter. In order to reclaim the life she was promised, she will learn to use every weapon at her disposal - even her son.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"The tale of the real Lady Macbeth…" -- Cover.
Includes historical notes.
Cold. Ruthless. Deadly. The myth of Lady Macbeth looms large. But behind the villainous portrait stands a real woman. This is her story... Scotland, 1020 AD - King Malcolm II is fading fast. It is North vs South, for two families have a claim on the inheritance of his crown. Who will gain the Scottish throne? On the eve of her 16th birthday, a flushed and nervous Cora MacDuff waits to marry her sweetheart, Macbeth. But her dreams are about to be stolen from her as the night she was hoping for turns into a brutal slaughter. In order to reclaim the life she was promised, she will learn to use every weapon at her disposal - even her son.
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