RaveThe East Hampton StarElizabeth Stuart and her four daughters, the subjects of Ms. Goldstone’s absorbing book, have been largely overlooked by historians, but the author convincingly shows that these women ought to be understood as drivers of history ... Ms. Goldstone, the author or co-author of 10 other well-regarded books of European history, is a thrilling narrator of this complicated history. Yet the achievement of a work like this is not merely its command of a vast and dense web of the past, but also its incredible literary merit. Daughters of the Winter Queen is nothing short of page-turning, an exceptional work of scholarship that reads like a favorite novel filled with political intrigue, romantic scandal, and more than one dark-of-night escape.