The Other Boleyn Girl

‘When it comes to writers of historical fiction, Philippa Gregory is in the very top league’ DAILY MAIL ‘It is a credit to Gregory that she is able to sustain interest in an epic-length tale when the ending is one of the most well-known moments in english history. The very believable dialogue and detail take you all the way into the claustrophobic privy chambers of the royal palaces!Gregory has launched herself into a popular period and produced something with that most underrated of virtues: readability.’ THE TIMES ‘Philippa Gregory’s books are always a good read’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ‘This is an intelligent variation on a familiar tale [with] witty use of metaphor’ TLS Praise for EARTHLY JOYS ‘Brilliantly true to the period! I was entranced’ Lisa Jardine, Times Praise for VIRGIN EARTH ‘A gripping story’ Mail on Sunday ‘Exciting and fascinating’ Sunday Telegraph

Philippa Gregory is an internationally renowned historian and novelist. She holds a PhD in eighteenth-century literature at the University of Edinburgh and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff, an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck University of London, and she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to literature and to charity. Her novels have been adapted for stage and screen, and in 2023 she published her groundbreaking history book, Normal Women - 900 Years of Making History, which was also released as a podcast, a teen edition, and a series for young children.