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The year is 1001 and king aethlred, a man haunted by his past and troubled by his future has lost his queen. A norman in a loveless marriage of alliance, emma is a spirited, clever 15yearold who earns the love of her new subjects as well as that of athelstan, eldest son of aethelred. Buy a cheap copy of shadow on the crown book by patricia bracewell. Her nuanced, heartrending portrait of emma of normandy and her vikingravaged world brims with intrigue, courage, and sacrifice. She cleverly weaves what we know historically with her own imaginative interpretation of how she sees emma and the other main characters in the story aethelred himself, his grown sons and the. Shadow on the crown the emma of normandy, book 1 the emma of normandy series ebook. Patricia bracewell grew up in california where she taught literature and composition before embarking upon her writing career.