Matilda Empress
by Lise Arin
Genre: Historical Fiction
Matilda, a twelfth-century Empress of the Holy Roman Empire and daughter of Henry I, is twenty-four
years old and a widow. She returns to her father's double realm of England and Normandy and is
promptly married against her will to Geoffrey, a minor continental nobleman. When she is absent from
England at the time of her father's death, Matilda loses her throne to her cousin Stephen despite their
ongoing and secret love affair.
For almost twenty years, anarchy reins, and their passion fluctuates between hatred and obsession. The
only hope in sight is Matilda and Stephen's two sons, whose rightful claim to the throne may finally end
the bloody and endless war.
In the vein of Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl, Matilda Empress follows the real history of the
early English monarchs, and what happens when a strong woman at the center of great upheaval
refuses to play by the rules laid out for her.
Lise Arin has a PhD in English Literature from Columbia, and an undergraduate degree in History and
Literature from Harvard. She has two children, and lives with her husband in New York City. This is her
first novel, although it has been in the making for twenty years. Please follow @lisearin on Instagram and
Twitter.
GUEST POST
Have
you written any other books that are not published?
When I was a small girl, I had a best
friend named Christine, and apparently felt compelled to memorialize
our banal suburban experiences in a series of novels, The
Adventures of Lise and Christine. Although I gave myself top
billing, I didn’t hog the limelight within the stories themselves.
The books were booklets really, made of folded and stapled yellow
legal paper. I also illustrated them, despite a dearth of artistic
skills. I had forgotten all about these early literary endeavors
until I discovered the cache of them in a box of childhood
memorabilia. But it seems I was a writer born, not bred.
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