The Sunne In Splendour

The reader is left with the haunting sensation that perhaps the good a man does can live after him, especially in the hands of a dedicated historian.
SAN DIEGO UNION
In this stirring historical novel, Sharon Kay Penman redeems Richard III from his villainous role in history as the hulking, evil hunchback. This dazzling recreation of his life is filled with the sights and sounds of battle, and the passions of the highborn. Most of all, it brings to life a gifted man whose greatest sin was that he held principles too firmly for the times in which he lived, and loved too deeply to survive love's loss.
This brilliant historical novel set in 15th century England is available again. The last of the Plantaganets, Richard III is best known as the hunchback of Shakespeare's play, but in Penman's re-creation, he stands in the shadow of his handsome, heroic brother, lost in love for an unattainable woman.