Victoria A novel of a young queen by the Creator/Writer of the Masterpiece Presentation on PBS

Daisy Goodwin, Anna Wilson-Jones

eAudio - 2016

"Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, verve, and wit."– AMANDA FOREMANDrawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin—creator and writer of the new PBS Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter—brings the young nineteenth-century monarch, who would go on to reign for 63 years, richly to life in this magnificent novel.Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victo...ria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman,...

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Published
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
Main Authors
Daisy Goodwin, Anna Wilson-Jones
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size358 GB
Parts11
ISBN9781427274335
Release Date11/22/2016
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size358 GB
ISBN9781427274335
Release Date11/22/2016