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Goodwin, Daisy,

Victoria : a novel / Daisy Goodwin. - London Headline Review, 2016 - 458 pages ; 24 cm.

'A confident, skilful storyteller. Pure, light-hearted, unpretentious entertainment' Sunday Express Windsor Castle 1869 Florence Carmody is six foot tall and has the colour of a ripe pumpkin. English by birth, she has grown up in San Francisco. Now she has come home, and thanks to the machinations of her wily grandmother, she has been chosen to be a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria. Florence is an expert on scalps and a collector of fairy tales, but no story by Grimm can compete with the reality of life at court...

ISBN: 9780755396108 (trade paperback) 0755396103 (trade paperback) 9780755396115 (paperback) 0755396111 (paperback)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 --Fiction.
Albert, Prince Consort, consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1861 --Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Succession--History--Kings and rulers

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.92