Mary, Bloody Mary

Blood is thicker than water - unless the King decrees otherwise.A compelling first-person narration of childhood, as told by Henry VIII's daughter, Mary Tudor. History remembers her only as "e;Bloody Mary"e; because of the brutality of her reign, but this compelling recreation of her childhood brings alive the contradictions and conflicts and true danger of being the daughter of a 'divorced' queen as her father falls under the spell of the "e;witch"e; Anne Boleyn and why such an apparently privileged little girl could grow up to be such a monster.Published by Harcourt Brace in USA 1999, it has been widely reviewed and acclaimed; was an ALA Notable Book, and among the ALA 10 Notable Books of that year.