The Red Queen
Author: Margaret Drabble
Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package–a memoir by a Korean crown princess, written more than two hundred years ago. A highly appropriate gift for her impending trip to Seoul. But from whom?,,The story she avidly reads on the plane turns out to be one of great intrigue as well as tragedy. The Crown Princess Hyegyong recounts in extraordinar….Read More
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