The Queen's Fool A Novel

The novel is set in the turbulent Tudor court, beginning in the winter of 1553. The protagonist is Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl who, with her father, is forced to flee Spain to England to escape the Inquisition. Hannah possesses the gift of 'Sight,' the ability to foresee the future, which is an invaluable but dangerous asset in the troubled political and religious times of the court. She is taken in by the charismatic Robert Dudley, who brings her to court as a 'holy fool' to serve first Queen Mary and, eventually, Queen Elizabeth. Hired as a fool but often working as a spy, Hannah becomes caught in the fierce and poisonous rivalry between the Catholic Queen Mary and her Protestant half-sister, Princess Elizabeth. Torn between her faith, her duty to her family, her love for her master, and the deadly intrigues of treason and heresy, Hannah must navigate the dangerous period where the wrong religion could be a death sentence, and true love might lead to her downfall.

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