9.Is it “better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all”? Lala loses much in this story, but is she better for having known, loved, and helped those who have died?
10.Would you become a British royal of these eras (or Russian royalty) if you had the choice? (And for the Russians, if you didn’t know the revolution was coming?) Or would you like to be part of the British royal family today? What are the pros and cons of such a life?
11.Charlotte Bill and other nurses and nannies like her were some of the first “career women” who gave up their own romantic and domestic futures for their duty. Are they caught between the past and the future during this early “suffragette” movement? Are they to be admired or pitied?
12.There has recently been much worldwide upheaval over big-game hunting and the overhunting of species in general. How do you feel about the massive number of game birds killed by the upper class of this era? Why do you think this sport was such a passion?
13.As dreadful as World War I was for the British (and others), did any good social movements come from so many men being lost? How so?
14.Those of us who have enjoyed such BBC series as Upstairs, Downstairs or Downton Abbey have had a peek into understanding England’s servant class at this time. Were there both joys and sorrows, triumphs as well as tragedies in this lifestyle?
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HISTORICAL NOVELS
The Queen’s Governess
The Irish Princes • Mistress Shakespeare
The First Princess of Wales • The Last Boleyn
THE QUEEN ELIZABETH I MYSTERY SERIES
The Hooded Hawke • The Fatal Fashione
The Fyre Mirror • The Queene’s Christmas
The Thorne Maze • The Queene’s Cure
The Twylight Tower • The Tidal Poole • The Poyson Garden
SUSPENSE
Broken Bonds • Forbidden Ground • Shattered Secrets
Upon a Winter’s Night • Dark Crossings
Finding Mercy • Return to Grace
Fall from Pride • Down River
Deep Down • The Hiding Place
Below the Surface • Inferno
Hurricane • Dark Angel
Dark Harvest • Dark Road Home
The Falls • The Stone Forest
Shaker Run • Down to the Bone
The Baby Farm • Empty Cradle • Black Orchid
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Cover design by Mumtaz Mustafa
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