Interesting but sometimes annoying | Katherine (Coronet Books)

Well Written | Katherine (Coronet Books) | Anya Seton

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	• Katherine (Coronet Books) Anya Seton Coronet Books, 1994 - 576 pages average customer review:based on 257 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Katherine is a multi-read through the years

Read it first in high school English (1968) and still re-read it. Excellent Historical Fiction which will probably snag you on Anya Seton's writing.
I recommend The Winthrop Woman as well. And Theodesia.

Interesting but sometimes annoying

The book was really interesting and Anya Seton included a lot of the historical context of the time period. But it was slow for quite a while and Katherine, the protagonist, was quite often irritating. But overall it was a pretty good book and I would recommend it to anyone interested in historical fiction that also has a good amount of historical context.

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Well Written

I enjoyed this book for the most part but I also found it to be somewhat like a harlequin novel. Still a good read though.

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one of the first, and still one of the best!

This book may have been written in the 1950's, but the story is timeless, and the storyteller is quite skilled in her craft. The dilemmas that Katherine faced were daunting, and the author does not spare us any details in an attempt to make Katherine more sympathetic. I can understand why many historical fiction writers cite Seton as a role model. This is definitely more than a romance novel!

Many of the historical inaccuracies are minor, and are because in the 1950's, there was significantly less known about Medieval Europe than there is now. I am sure that if Seton were to write the book today, she would get those facts straight. But the basic premise holds true, regardless. Peg

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Katherine came to the court of Edward III at the age of 15: the orphan daughter of a minor herald, betrothed to an obscure knight. And soon, the beloved mistress of the King's son and the mother of his children.