"A rollicking account of four medieval queens...Castor's book is a gem of blood-and-thunder storytelling, packed with terrific vignettes." —Sunday Times
"Highly readable, exciting and thought-provoking." —Guardian
"Combining careful scholarship with a novelist's eye for detail, Castor offers a fresh perspective and an engaging narrative that barrels along. Few books actually merit that hoary critical commonplace 'unputdownable', but this is certainly one of them." —Independent on Sunday
In She-Wolves, celebrated historian, Helen Castor, tells the dramatic and fascinating stories of four exceptional women who, while never reigning queens, held great power: Matilda, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou. These were women who paved the way for Jane Grey, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I - the Tudor queens who finally confronted what it meant to be a female monarch.
