This book was entirely unexpected and not what I initially thought it would be about. When I picked it up, I thought it was about the fictional Lady Macbeth of Shakespeare's play Macbeth. I soon realized, no, it was a historical fiction about the actual Lady Macbeth, the one Shakespeare VERY loosely based his play on (as in not at all). So that being said, it's a great read, a fascinating portrait of a turbulent time. The author has a PhD in like medieval art history, or something, but she's clearly an excellent historic researcher and has written this book around what has been written down about this time, and I don't mean recent books, I mean annals from the 1500's (already ancient history when documented, but that's all we have left).
I love books that bring ancient history back to life the way this does! I highly recommend this book for the history lover!
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