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  <title><![CDATA[The Concubine: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default-description>'All eyes and hair' a courtier had said disparagingly of her - and certainly the younger daughter of Tom Boleyn lacked the bounteous charms of most ladies of Court. Black-haired, black-eyed, she had a wild-sprite quality that was to prove more effective, more dangerous than conventional feminine appeal. The King first noticed her when she was sixteen - and with imperial greed he smashed her youthful love-affair with Harry Percy and began the process of royal seduction...But this was no ordinary woman, no maid-in-waiting to be possessed and discarded by a king. Against his will, his own common sense, Henry found himself bewitched - enthralled by the young girl who was to be known as - the Concubine... 
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1974</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Concubine</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Norah Lofts]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 30 18:08:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 30 08:42:13 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Update: I increased my rating by one star because after thinking about it, two stars seemed a little harsh (especially since I've given two stars to books I never finished).  It wasn't really a bad book by any means - I just didn't enjoy the second half.<br/><br/>The first half of this book I woul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25966944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69294180">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 28 21:00:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 17 08:21:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first several chapters read more like a history than a novel. They were rather dry, but the book warmed up as the plot did. There was one absolutely devastating moment in this book that reveals much (that is probably true) about Henry. As other reviewers have pointed out, Anne is not the harrida...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69294180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74334591">
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 12 18:13:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 12 18:24:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another book about Anne Boleyn...written in 1965. Very interesting to read a less than contemporary view of Henry &amp; Anne.  Henry is much more complicit in the ultimate downfall of Anne than the more modern versions. And unlike contemporary novels, Ms. Lofts gives voice to Henry and Anne. She just cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74334591">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33319338">
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    <location><![CDATA[Herndon, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 19 20:28:57 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 28 09:57:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Concubine is a story about Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII. It tells the tale through various characters. A few of them being Anne, Henry, Wolsey and Anne's maid Emma Arnett.  It's a frustrating story to me because I've read so many books on Anne Boleyn and I find it distasteful when historical ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33319338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22170288">
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    <location><![CDATA[Cambridge, MA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone interested in Tudor history and Anne Boleyn]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[a bookseller who was none too impressed by 'The Other Boleyn Gir]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 13 13:22:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 13 13:41:16 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Less salacious than <em>The Other Boleyn Girl</em>, <em>The Concubine</em> also presents a fictionalized account of Anne Boleyn's rise to and fall from power. However, unlike TOBG, <em>The Concubine</em> focuses strictly on Anne; Mary Boleyn is a secondary (at best) character in the story.<br/><br/>There are several other d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22170288">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70134613">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 05 05:38:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 05 05:43:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I commissioned the current reissue at Tempus (under the Torc imprint). It was Alison Weir's suggestion to reissue the book. Touchstone then bought the US rights through me. The cover jpeg is of the Touchstone edition.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="74097538">
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 10 13:50:42 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 10 13:52:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating look at the Anne Boleyn story, told from the viewpoint of her maid - a woman with strong Protestant leanings.]]></body>
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    <review id="23519173">
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    <name><![CDATA[Adriana]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Boca Raton, FL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 02 09:51:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 23 06:33:42 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[THis was a good one, if for nothing else than Ms. Lofts writing style.  I immediately attached myself to the character of Emma Arnett.  However, I did not like the portrayal of Thomas Boleyn, Anne's father.  In all non-ficitonal accounts of him he is hands down a social climbing, heartless bastard w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23519173">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49345417">
    <user id="1620967">
    <name><![CDATA[Barbara]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pittsburgh, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 15 10:55:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 15 10:56:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one of those --Read it eons ago&quot; books that I loved to pieces]]></body>
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    <review id="49268948">
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    <name><![CDATA[Buff]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1967</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 14:53:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 14:53:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this when I was in junior high. Loved it then.]]></body>
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    <review id="37939289">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ania]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 23 12:45:24 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't love this book as much as some other books covering the same period - but it was still good.]]></body>
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    <review id="59586450">
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 13 22:22:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book about Anne Boleyn. Very interesting.]]></body>
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    <review id="49404192">
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 15 20:42:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite novel of Anne Boleyn.]]></body>
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    <review id="50221450">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm doing the anne boleyn thing again, it's been awhile..  Still waiting for my new Richard III books to arrive from amazon!]]></body>
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    <review id="15060419">
    <user id="856618">
    <name><![CDATA[Kelly]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kansas City, MO]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was interesting to read after having read The Other Boleyn  Girl.  It tells the same story but with more focus on Ann and  from a whole different viewpoint.  I am sure no one will every know exactly what played out in the lives of these two sisters. ]]></body>
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    <review id="32533778">
    <user id="226553">
    <name><![CDATA[Recynd]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Garden Grove, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 10 11:12:18 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 04 16:10:04 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish we could give 1/2 stars; four stars is a bit generous.<br/><br/>The book was okay; I almost forgot I'd read it, which isn't exactly glowing praise.  But not bad.]]></body>
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    <review id="35461471">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 16 09:08:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved all the historical detail, all of her books seem to have an effortless quality of mixing these detailed facts with fiction. Really neat writer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating book of historical fiction about Anne Boylen's rise and fall as the Queen of England, and wife of Henry VIII.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far so good- written from a different perspective--  this time period just keeps me so intrigued! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just as with Victoria Holt and Mary Stewart, I read as many of their books as I could find.  ]]></body>
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