Tansy

Malone Trilogy

by Maureen Peters, Marie McCarthy (Narrator)

The first volume in the Tansy Trilogy. Living in a village forty miles west of Dublin, Tansy's family find her yearning for freedom hard to understand. Raleigh Devereux, the English youth to whom Tansy first offers her heart, treats her as a plaything; Michael O'Faolain, for whom she has affection, but no love, never comprehends her need to be true to herself.Not until disaster strikes the land, with the failure of the potato crop, do events conspire to bring Tansy face to face with reality, and with the complexities of her own nature.

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First published June 19, 1975

About the author

Maureen Peters was born in Caernarvon, Wales, on March 3, 1935, and was married and divorced twice; she has two sons and two daughters. In addition to biographical fiction, historical romances, and mystery novels written under her own name, other noms de plume include Veronica Black, Catherine Darby, Levanah Lloyd, Belinda Grey, Elizabeth Law, Judith Rothman, and Sharon Whitby.

She was educated at grammar school and attended the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree and a diploma of Education. For some time she taught disabled children, and then took up writing. She has produced many books and contributed short stories to many magazines. Peters is also known as a Bronte scholar.

Her novels, which easily number over one hundred, have often focused on royalty, mostly the War of the Roses and Tudor period, and cover the lives of Elizabeth I of England, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, as well as of other famous and less famous historical figures such as Edward II of England, the many Queen consorts of various Kings of England. Apart from biographical fiction on royalty (written under her own name), she also wrote Gothic romances, family sagas, Mills & Boon series titles, and contemporary mysteries.