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Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed … Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans … One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there – Matt Bates * WH Smith Travel *
Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama * New York Times *
Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of charaterization has become one of the country’s most widely read novelists * Sunday Times *
Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting * Observer *
Jean Plaidy knows her period and manages with skill a crowded cast * Times Literary Supplement *
One of England’s foremost historical novelists * Birmingham Mail *
A fascinating historical romance … vividly drawn * Manchester Evening News *
Jean Plaidy shows the meticulous nature of her research and her ability to tell a good story without fuss or pretension * Sphere *

Jean Plaidy is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also known as Victoria Holt. She was one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century. By the time of her death in 1993, Jean Plaidy’s novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide.

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