She is treated as your typical 15th century wife. She is there to give birth and raise children and that is all that is expected and wanted from her. Margaret is not your average woman. She longs for more than giving an heir to the House of Lancaster. At a very young age she feels she has a calling placed upon her by God. She feels she has to save England and do something great and follow in the footsteps of Joan of Arc. This calling is to put her son, Henry Tudor, on the throne of England. To do this, she must play houses against each other and overcome many hardships and wars. It takes her many years to put her son on the throne, but she does it by at last overthrowing the Yorks.
This book is very well written and I enjoyed it immensely. It gives you a great look at the struggle for the throne and what went on behind the wars. It also gives you a deep look into the wives of 15th century England, which I thought was very interesting. The way God and religion are twisted to suit people's needs and those of others was one of the driving forces behind the book for me. Margaret is constantly saying what she does is God's will, but it somehow always turns out that God's will is, amazingly, her will as well. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a good historical fiction novel. It is satisfying on many levels.
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