Lady Jane Grey's tragic story is told in vivid color and detail. ' Well researched novel of the Tudor period. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.The recording enhances the technique by using varied clear-voiced narrators. “Weir keeps a complicated story untangled with the deft use of multiple first-person points of view. A brilliantly vivid and psychologically astute novel.” “Complex yet completely absorbing…Weir finds Jane an intelligent individual, a thinker in her own right but, tragically, given the times and the power available to the ‘grown-ups’ around her, she ultimately could not resist the political currents swirling over her. Ellen, and Stina Nielsen, who shows us Jane’s development from dutiful child to contemplative girl at court and finally the 16-year-old young woman who faces execution with grace.” In contrast are Jenny Sterlin’s kindly nurse, Mrs.

The regal-accented Gerard Doyle portrays self-interested John Dudley, who uses Jane as a political pawn, and Bianca Amato plays Queen Mary, who responds coldly to this political threat but melts later in compassion. Davina Porter’s cold tones portray Jane’s shrewish mother, Frances Brandon, who can’t forgive her daughter for being born female. “Alison Weir writes a splendid historical fiction…Multiple talented narrators are well chosen for voices and viewpoints that collaborate to tell the story. “Weir proves herself deft as ever describing Tudor food, manners, clothing, pastimes (including hunting and jousting), and marital politics.” In the nine days’ queen, Weird has found a fascinating and deeply sympathetic figure through which to examine one of the strangest crises of British history.” “You can’t resist Jane-so young, so brilliant, so cruelly used and sacrificed. “A sensitive and fast-paced tale…Weir conveys the age’s political intrigues, religious fanaticism, and sexism.” - USA Today

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