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'A biography that reads as thrillingly as a detective story, and is rich in details and authoritative in its analysis' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times 'An absorbing biography ... meticulously researched... scholarly and intriguing' Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'Fascinating... A book based on gold-standard research, the kind of thing that puts most popular history writing to shame' Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday 'Rarely have first-class scholarship and first-class storytelling been so effectively combined' John Adamson, Daily Telegraph

`A biography that reads as thrillingly as a detective story' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times `A masterpiece, full of fire and tragedy' Amanda Foreman 'Rarely have first-class scholarship and first-class storytelling been so effectively combined' John Adamson, Daily Telegraph

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John Guy is the author of numerous histories, including Tudor England, which has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and My Heart is My Own, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His new book, A Daughter’s Love, is about Sir Thomas More and his daughter, Margaret Roper. He is a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge and also lectures in the Faculty of History. He became an Honorary Research Professor of the University of St Andrews in 2003.

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