Shadow on the crown is a shorter book but extremely gripping she approaches emmas life from a different angle and tells more of emmas background she cleverly weaves what we know historically with her own imaginative interpretation of how she sees emma and the other main characters in the story aethelred himself his grown sons and the kings very personal inner nightmares all these main characters are eminently believable the novel introduces us to how emmas personality is shaped . Shadow on the crown is a shorter book but extremely gripping she approaches emmas life from a different angle and tells more of emmas background she cleverly weaves what we know historically with her own imaginative interpretation of how she sees emma and the other main characters in the story aethelred himself his grown sons and the kings very personal inner nightmares all these main characters are eminently believable the novel introduces us to how emmas personality is shaped . Shadow on the crown bracewell patricia isbn 9780143124351 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Shadow on the crown by patricia bracewell is a historical novel set way back in 1001 england emma is married by arrangement to the king in exchange for certain favors from her brother emma is married by arrangement to the king in exchange for certain favors from her brother. Readers first met emma of normandy in patricia bracewells gripping debut novel shadow on the crown unwillingly thrust into marriage to englands king aethelred emma has given the king a son and