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When rivalry turns to something more

The Pretender: A Novel Maya Gonzalez the children wait for theA sweeping historical novel in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Maggie OFarrell set during the time of the Tudors ascent. The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety, believed to be the heir to the throne occupied by Richard III, and briefly crowned, at the age of ten, as King Edward VI, one of the last of the Plantagenets. In 1480 John Collans greatest anxiety is how to circumvent