The painted lady

By Maeve Haran

Subjects: Fiction, historical, Fiction, Great britain, fiction, Courts and courtiers, Court and courtiers, History

Description: Sixteen-year-old Frances Stuart arrives at the Restoration court to find her innocence and beauty are highly-prized commodities, envied by the women and desired by the men. Before long, King Charles II falls passionately in love with her and will stop at nothing to make her his mistress. But Frances is no conventional court beauty.