Philippa Gregory is best known for her sweeping historical novels, including the enchanting #1 bestseller, The Other Boleyn Girl. Now Gregory is branching out into young adult fiction, with Changeling, the first book in her Order of Darkness Series. Like her popular adult books, Changeling is set amidst the Middle Ages, and features a young couple bound together by their outsider status, who embark on a historic journey across Europe. It's a perfect book for getting young readers interested in history, and the compelling storytelling will appeal to adult readers as well.
Today, Philippa Gregory offers NOOK Blog readers her thoughts on why the Middle Ages are such an enthralling historical period, and such a rich setting for modern storytellers.
"My favorite historical period really has to be the medieval period. I have been working on the Tudors, and now the Plantagenets, for more than ten years now, so it is well that I find them so interesting. But it’s the period when what England is going to be really takes off. The Plantagenets have this long war that goes on for nearly twenty years, one way or another, and during that time, the great families that are going to rule England in the future come to the forefront and establish their power. The regionalism of England is really, in a sense, declared and becomes apparent. So what England’s going to be is truly forged in the medieval world. It’s a time when people have to fight for their own power, for their own position; women, of course, have no rights at all. But it’s also the time where you see some very interesting power behind the scenes and some of the most exciting, dominant women come to the forefront in this period as well. I think it is a period that is really quite irresistible, as well as it is physically very, very beautiful."
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