![]() "For an instant, their fingers touched and then he held her gift aloft, a scarf of bright bold colors, upon which had been stitched, with incredible patience and perseverance, a blazing sun on a field of white roses. Among the London crowds who greet him as their deliverer is a young girl. ![]() Instead, the focus is on intimate, deeply sympathetic portraits of Edward and Richard of York.Įdward has an instinct for the gracious gesture. The feeble-minded Lancastrian Henry VI had essentially ceded the rule to his hated French wife, Margaret of Anjou, whom Penman's novel does nothing to rehabilitate. ![]() The title refers to Edward's battle flag, and the novel begins in 1459, a year of vicious fighting in the Wars of the Roses, waged between the Lancaster and York descendants of Edward III. It is about two Yorkist kings of England, Edward IV and his much maligned brother Richard III. ![]() The Sunne in Splendour is a political story that, first and foremost, is intensely human. The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman ![]()
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