Victoria
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- 9,99 €
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- 9,99 €
Publisher Description
Victoria van Daisy Goodwin is een verrukkelijke historische roman, gebaseerd op de eigen dagboeken van koningin Victoria. Ook de recente BBC tv-serie Victoria, haar jonge jaren is bedacht en geschreven door Daisy Goodwin.
In 1837, kort na haar 18e verjaardag, wordt de frêle Alexandrina Victoria koningin van Groot-Brittannië en Ierland. Zij ontpopt zich meteen als een zelfstandige, eigenzinnige jonge vrouw, die allesbehalve preuts of traditioneel is.
Deze roman bestrijkt haar daden, ideeën en gevoelens tot haar 21e en bevat veel romantiek en een heerlijk slot.
'Absoluut een meeslepende roman […], gevoelig geschreven, met verve en humor', aldus Amanda Foreman, voorzitter van de Man Booker Prize 2016, over Victoria.
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Inspired by the diaries of Queen Victoria, British TV producer and author Goodwin (The American Heiress) mines a rich vein of royal history with the ascension of the impetuous and imperious 18-year-old whose sole companions were dolls and a lapdog to the English throne in 1837. "Your subjects are not dolls to be played with. To be a queen, you have to be more than a little girl with a crown," scolds a dying lady of the court whom Victoria has cruelly shamed. It is a heartbreaking lesson as the new monarch navigates the palace and political intrigues under the guidance of her charming and lovelorn prime minister, Lord Melbourne. It's this relationship between the impressionable teen and her attentive middle-aged adviser that forms the irresistible emotional center of Goodwin's rich and passionate historical novel. "When you give your heart it will be without hesitation... but you cannot give it to me," Melbourne tells Victoria after she confesses that her prime minister is "the only companion I could ever desire." Rejected, Victoria begins the stormy and politically fraught courtship with her German cousin and future husband, Albert. That true-life ending, however, pales in comparison to Goodwin's timeless recounting of a young girl's aching first love.
