Rose Mathis I caught Prince Edward with his pants down-literally. Rose met the Royal Bastard and he stole her heart. But beyond personal narratives it also sheds light on the perennially fascinating topic of sexual habits the links between politics, power and patronage the class system, scandal and celebrity and the different expectations we have of men and women.Ĭinderella met her Prince Charming and lost a slipper. Interviewees include many of their descendants. This book is a new, genuinely fresh approach to British 'Kings and Queens', examining their lives and times through the unfamiliar perspective of their illegitimate children.

In the 20th century this trend for Royals to father illegitimate children continued, but the parentage, while highly probable, has not been officially recognised. Others were only acknowledged grudgingly or not at all. Many were acknowledged at court and founded dynasties of their own - several of today's dukedoms are descended from them. The Librarian published in 2018 includes biographical information in Author's Notes.Since 1066 when William the Conqueror (alias William the Bastard) took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Where Three Roads Meet, a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life. Salley Vickers is a British novelist whose works include Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr. It is a hymn to the power of children's literature. 'The Librarian will wring the heart of anyone who fell in love with books as a child. Category : Fiction - Modern Mainstream Fiction.Format : Standard, Thick 2nd Hand Paperback.

How does the library alter the young children's lives and how do the children fare as a result of the books Sylvia introduces them to? Details Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but it's her connection to his precocious young daughter and her neighbours' son which will change her life and put them, the library and her job under threat. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950's England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres.

The Librarian by Salley Vickers