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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
an engrossing read Having hugely enjoyed the previous, excellent study of Mary Queen of Scots by this author, I was keen to read his next book. John Guy makes the complicated and precarious world of Thomas More and his family understandable and exciting to non specialist readers such as myself. He includes the sort of precise, telling detail and explanation of the lives they led and the beliefs they held, which makes they themselves and their frightening situation become very real. The importance of Margaret's position in the... more info
A Masterpiece I just got this book and loved it. It's an absolutely stunning read, totally engrossing, and it's actually a better book than Guy's "My Heart is My Own", his biography of Mary Queen of Scots that won the Whitbread Biography Award. For the first time in 500 years we see Thomas More as he really was, and how far he relied on his brilliant daughter, Margaret, married to the shallow timeserver, William Roper, who fooled everyone by stealing the story 20 years after More's execution and making himself a central... more info
A fascinating read
I read this book after I saw Lisa Jardine's rave review in the Sunday Times and I thoroughly agree with her enthusiastic assessment. Jardine really knows what she is talking about!
The book is gripping right from the Prologue in which there is a flash forward and Margaret retrieves Thomas' head from display on London Bridge. The history of `my dearest Meg' and Thomas are then skilfully interwoven starting off with the environment into which Margaret was born and moving through her exceptional... more info
Heavy duty I heard about this book on Radio 4 and enjoy historical novels which this is not of course! This is a heavy duty tome which details the lives of Thomas More & family, it is accurate & fascinating but written more like a reference book to dip in & out of for information than a book to read from start to finish. It could do with editing: his professional life is covered then in the next chapter it goes back several years to cover his personal life. Also there are some very detailed chapters on... more info
