The Pretender by Jo Harkin is one of the best historical fiction novels I have read in a long time. It shines a critical yet entertaining light on things that may or may not have happened during the War of the Roses via the perspective of a boy who grows into a young man over the course of the novel, who never knows who he really is aside from what he’s…
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