PositiveThe Wall Street JournalThanks to Ms. Gregory, we see a great deal of treachery during Elizabeth's time as the ‘white queen’...There is, in short, endless maneuvering for advantage in a desperately uncertain world, one in which everyone is alert, watchful and scared of getting the thing wrong … Ms. Gregory navigates herself faultlessly through the period with a fine sense of what was distinctive about it … In lesser hands, recounting this slice of history might have been a tiresome exercise from start to finish, but The White Queen is something more than that. High English literature it certainly isn't; nor is it merely a medieval bodice-ripper. It is something betwixt and between, rather like the heroine's own life.
