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Cynthia Sally Haggard

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Born

in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, The United Kingdom

November 03

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http://www.spunstories.com

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Historical Fiction, Romance, Young Adult

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Grandma Stephanie, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy

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Born and raised in Surrey, England, CYNTHIA SALLY HAGGARD has lived in the United States for twenty-nine years. She has had four careers: violinist, cognitive scientist, medical writer and novelist. Why does she write historical novels? Because she has been reading them with great enjoyment since she was a child. Because she has a great imagination and a love of history that won't go away. And because she has an annoying tendency to remember trivial details of the past and to treat long-dead people as if they were more real than those around her.

Cynthia's biggest influence was her grandmother, Stephanie Treffry, who had a natural story-telling ability. As a widow in 1970s Britain, Grandma Stephanie didn't drive a car, so would spend time wa ...more

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	Thwarted Queen (Thwarted Queen Book 3) 3.75 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bride Price (Thwarted Queen, #1) 3.61 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Seed Sown (Thwarted Queen, #2) 3.52 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Murders Reaped (Thwarted Queen, Book 4 3.69 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gilded Cage (Thwarted Queen, #3) 3.73 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rose of Raby: The First and Second Books in a Saga about the Yorks, Lancasters and Nevilles, Whose Family Feud Started the Cousin's War, Now Known as the Wars of the Roses, Told by Cecily Cecylee Neville (1415-1495), the Thwarted Queen 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thwarted Queen: A Saga about the Yorks, Lancasters and Nevilles, Whose Family Feud Started the Wars of the Roses 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thwarted Queen, the Complete Version: The Entire Saga about the Yorks, Lancasters, and Nevilles, Whose Family Feud Started the Wars of the Roses 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Duke Humphrey dishes about the Queen (Literature & Fiction)

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Description: An excerpt from THE GILDED CAGE, which is Book 3 of my novel THWARTED QUEEN.

WEBSITES TO WATCH from my blog Spun Stories (Select)

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THE RED BOTTLE (Select)

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Description: A Story in 100 words

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The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli

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Historical Fictio...: May 2012 Challenge- Spring Clean those shelves!	76	136	May 14, 2012 10:15PM
Making Connections: 196. ROSE OF RABY by Cynthia Sally Haggard	9	45	Jun 19, 2012 07:16AM
Making Connections: 201. THWARTED QUEEN by Cynthia Sally Haggard	11	47	Jun 22, 2012 06:46AM
Making Connections: 199. THE GILDED CAGE (Thwarted Queen #3) by Cynthia Sally Haggard	11	42	Jun 22, 2012 08:57PM
Making Connections: 200. TWO MURDERS REAPED (Thwarted Queen #4) by Cynthia Sally Haggard	10	46	Aug 09, 2012 12:04PM
Making Connections: 197. THE BRIDE PRICE (Thwarted Queen #1) by Cynthia Sally Haggard	25	83	Aug 11, 2012 12:11PM
Making Connections: 198. ONE SEED SOWN (Thwarted Queen #2) by Cynthia Sally Haggard	17	52	Aug 11, 2012 12:33PM
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“People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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“Not all superstitions are dark and cruel. I once received a communication from the god Osiris. He was living at that time in a suburb of Boston.”
― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

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“Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of this statement. So far, I have not had the good fortune to come across it.”
― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

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“It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank and ice, that soon melts away, tempt us to believe in new lands, while constantly deceiving the adventurous mariner with vain hopes, and involving him in adventures which he can never leave, yet never bring to an end.”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster.

This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

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