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Reviewed by Mike Dixon for Readers' Favorite
Susan Appleyard’s epic novel, This Sun of York, begins with Richard of York’s unsuccessful challenge to the House of Lancaster at Blackheath and ends with his son’s triumphant victory at Towton nine years later. Today, we know the conflict as the War of the Roses. Contemporaries called it the War of the Cousins. The ruling classes were closely related and used their children as bargaining pieces. Sons and daughters were betrothed at an early age and that gave rise to some nasty family relationships, as Appleyard relates. Being married to a depraved man is bad enough. Life becomes unbearable when your husband is intent on killing your father. Fifteen-year-old Anne Plantagenet suffered such traumas. Her brother Edward (later Edward IV) was not immune from them. On more than one occasion, he was confronted by the bodies of dead relatives, slain by his own men.
Susan Appleyard’s This Sun of York has been carefully researched and is full of historical detail. But it is far more than an account of known events. Appleyard has filled in the gaps where the historical record is incomplete and has done so in a highly plausible and entertaining manner. Those who do not like explicit sex scenes can skip them for the meaty stuff of political intrigue and military prowess. Readers who want to know more about the bawdy side of life can follow Edward on his excursions into the fleshpots of London and share his mother’s alarm at what her teenage son is up to.
