Written by the original Philippa Gregory and originally called The White Queen, Lesley Nickell's first book was a love story between Anne and King Richard was runner up for the first ever Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize. Her second book, Sons of York is a follow up and her third book Perkin continues the theme with Perkin Warbeck who appeared from nowhere and claimed to be Richard Duke of York, the younger son of Edward IV – one of the ‘Princes in the Tower’.
Due to a series of unexpected events Janet became a very young widow running her own growing business in London; the mistress of the charismatic king; and an exile in the Low Countries with her life inextricably entwined with those of the Princes in the Tower. They were all sons of York – Edward IV, Richard III, their brother George and all their children.
Written by the original Philippa Gregory and originally called 'The White Queen' this love story between Anne and King Richard was runner up for the first ever Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize. The story tells about Anne Neville, a timid and delicate child ignored by her mother, patronised by her elder sister and bullied by her formidable father Warwick.