02174cam a2200325 i 4500 1913652837 TxAuBib 20250509120000.0 240419s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024017308 9780593803301 HRD 30.00 0593803302 HRD 30.00 (OCoLC)1437791885 TxAuBib rda Harkin, Jo. The pretender: a novel [BOOK] / Jo Harkin. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. 475 pages : genealogical tables ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In 1480 John Collan's greatest anxiety is how to circumvent the village's devil goat on his way to collect water. But the arrival of a well-dressed stranger from London upends his life forever: John is not John Collan, not the son of Will Collan but the son of the long-deceased Duke of Clarence, and has been hidden in the countryside after a brotherly rift over the crown--and because Richard III has a habit of disappearing his nephews. Removed from his humble origins, sent to Oxford to be educated in a manner befitting the throne's rightful heir, John is put into play by his masters, learning the rules of etiquette in Burgundy and the machinations of the court in Ireland, where he encounters the intractable Joan, the delightfully strong-willed and manipulative daughter of his Irish patrons, a girl imbued with both extraordinary political savvy and occasional murderous tendencies. Joan has two paths available her--marry or become a nun. Lambert's choices are similarly stark: he will either become king or die in battle. Together they form an alliance that will change the fate of the English monarchy". 20250509. Pretenders to the throne Great Britain Fiction. Family life Fiction. Kings and rulers Fiction. Great Britain History Tudors, 1485-1603 Fiction. Historical fiction.