Prisoners in the Palace would definitely appeal to fans of historical fiction, but I think it would also appeal to someone who has never read the genre. I'll admit my knowledge of Queen Victoria was only rudimentary before reading this book, but now I feel the need to know more! I plan on reading some of the books the author suggested and I also watched The Young Victoria, which shows Victoria's life just before she became Queen and in her first years on the throne.
There are other wonderful characters to be found here, like Will, the newspaper man that Liza meets when she and the Princess scheme a story to run to bring shame to Sir John, Inside Boy Jones, a boy who lived inside the palace without the knowledge of the residents, and the frumpy, grumpy Baroness, who is more like a mother to the Princess than her actual mother. She must have told Liza some variation of 'remember your place' at least ten times throughout the book.
He was a true villain! Victoria is willful, and even when she's being nice, she's kind of a hoity-toity pain in the butt. I hated Sir John, and so did Victoria in real life. The Princess lives in rundown Kensington Palace with her overbearing mother and her mother's awful adviser Sir John. Her father's solicitor finds her a job working for Princess Victoria. Just a few days later, she's being kicked out of a five star hotel because she has no means to pay the bill as her parents have died in a carriage accident. One day, her parents are alive and she's planning her entrance to London society. I was drawn in from the first page, as Liza's in an interesting predicament. Prisoners in the Palace is not only the best historical fiction I've read this year-but it's going on my list of top books of the year as well. Luckily, this book isn't just a pretty cover-the content is so amazing you'll probably end up like me and staying up until 1:30 AM to finish it!
Would you look at that cover? It is so, so gorgeous.
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