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Sharon Kay Penman:
Which book of yours would you suggest a new reader start with?
Sharon Kay Penman
Hi, Corrie. First of all, I apologize for taking so long to respond to your query. I have been fighting a Deadline Dragon for months now and they do not make good roommates. Between the dragon and real life ambushing me from time to time, I had to let so much slide. I am now doing my best to catch up. Well, the two books that my readers always say are their favorites are Here be Dragons and The Sunne in Splendour; Dragons almost always wins in polls with Sunne a close second. Sunne is a stand-alone revisionist account of the Wars of the Roses, revisionist in that my Richard III is not Shakespeare's bottled spider! Dragons is the first of what readers call my Welsh trilogy, with the major characters being King John, his illegitimate daughter, Joanna, and Llywelyn ab Iorwerh, the Welsh prince she married. So I'd start with either Dragons or Sunne.
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Cheryl Mallon Webb
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Sharon Kay Penman:
I love your books. My favorite is Here be dragons. Reading your books caused me to develop an intense interest in European (especially British) history. I love history so much that it has become one of my hobbies, along with reading great novels. What got you interested in history and caused you to want to create such incredible books for us?
J Tea
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Sharon Kay Penman:
As a lover of British history, and ability to trace my own to 1066, I decided to return to fiction from non-fiction for a time and the first thing I thought of was your works because I find them close to recorded history. How important is it to you to follow "real" history, since there can be many variations in what's recorded? Also, will you ever venture to Agincourt as a field of play? Thank you
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