Lady in Waiting
by Susan Meissner
WaterBrook Press, 2010
352 pages
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
About the Book
Content in her comfortable marriage of twenty-two years, Jane Lindsay had never expected to watch her husband pack his belongings and walk out the door of their Manhattan home. But when it happens, she feels powerless to stop him and the course of events that follow Brad’s departure.
Jane finds an old ring in a box of relics from a British jumble sale and discovers a Latin inscription in the band along with just one recognizable word: Jane. Feeling an instant connection to the mysterious ring bearing her namesake, Jane begins a journey to learn more about the ring—and perhaps about herself.
In the sixteenth-century, Lucy Day becomes the dressmaker to Lady Jane Grey, an innocent young woman whose fate seems to be controlled by a dangerous political and religious climate, one threatening to deny her true love and pursuit of her own interests.
As the stories of both Janes dovetail through the journey of one ring, it becomes clear that each woman has far more influence over her life than she once imagined. It all comes down to the choices each makes despite the realities they face.
My Thoughts
It’s unusual for me to enjoy some books by a particular author as much as this one and find other books that I can’t read more than a few pages – I guess it may have as much to do with my frame of my at the time.
Anyway, I greatly enjoyed this book. I found the juxtaposition between the current-day Jane and the historical Lady Jane Grey to be fascinating and well-done, and I was captivated by both stories throughout the book.
This was a fun book to read and I would highly recommend it!
Note: This is Book #72 of my 2011 Reads (master list here).
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Lady Jane is one of my favorite historical characters. I’ll have to read this one.