The Shogun's Queen - The Shogun Quartet

The year is 1853, and a young Japanese girl''s world is about to be turned upside down. When black ships carrying barbarians arrive on the shores of Japan, the Satsuma clan''s way of life is threatened. But it''s not just the samurai who must come together to fight: the beautiful, headstrong Okatsu is also given a new destiny by her feudal lord - to save the realm. Armed only with a new name, Princess Atsu, as she is now known, journeys to the women''s palace of Edo Castle, a place so secret it cannot be marked on any map. Behind the palace''s immaculate facade, amid rumours of murder and whispers of ghosts, Atsu must uncover the secret of the man whose fate, it seems, is irrevocably linked to hers - the shogun himself - if she is to rescue her people . . .

Report

It is completely absorbing, showing Lesley Downer's deep knowledge of Japan and her mastery of its complex history during the nineteenth century. LIAN HEARN, author of Across the Nightingale Floor

Product details

• Authors: Lesley Downer, Downer Lesley
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780552163507
• ISBN: 978-0-552-16350-7
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 180 mm x 33 mm
• Series: The Shogun Quartet; The Shogun Quartet
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / War & Military, Historical romance, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Historical adventure, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945)