Jennifer, Emilie, and Tricia met while they were graduate students in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction program. And, make sure to check in on Friday, when I’ll post a contest to win a copy of this fun read. I talk a bit about this in the author interview with Michaela MacColl I’ll have up on Wednesday. The image above doesn’t do the cover of this book justice. Definitely a book I had trouble putting down. Besides Liza’s plucky character, I most enjoyed the historical details and MacColl’s swift plot. Prisoners in the Palace is a compelling look behind the scenes at Queen Victoria’s stifling upbringing. As the story progresses, Liza encounters political machinations that keep her scrambling to do what seems best for Victoria. She learns quickly to temper her natural reactions as a young lady to that of a servant. Thus, Liza enters a world of intrigue, unable to fit in with the ranks of royalty or the servant class below stairs. Liza’s ability to speak German clinches the job, because Baroness Lehzen, Victoria’s governess, wants someone to spy on Victoria’s mother and her advisor, Sir John Conroy. If Liza is to survive, she must become a servant-something she has no idea how to do. What she finds is that the position is for a lady’s maid. She heads off to Kensington Palace to interview for a position as a lady in waiting to Princess Victoria. But the lawyer also offers her an opportunity. What was meant to be a trip to London to introduce Liza to society and find a husband has ended in tragedy. Her father’s lawyer informs her that all the money is gone. Seventeen-year-old Liza Hastings has just lost her parents in a carriage accident.
Have I got a book for you! Michaela MacColl’s Prisoners in the Palace has everything you’re looking for-that is if you want good YA historical fiction with a real historical person at its center.Įnd of sales pitch. Okay, listen up, you lovers of all things Queen Victoria. Prisoners in the Palace Michaela MacColl Historical
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