SuitabookThe queen's lady
Eve Edwards
- Reading
- Try reading together in short sections, pausing to discuss how each character’s past affects their choices. Check in if the references to war or bereavement feel difficult.
- Themes
- Love and self-worth: Jane remains in love with James, who feels unworthy of her. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- War and its aftermath: James returns from military campaigning troubled by what he has seen. The aftermath of campaigning is part of James’s situation; the details and the story’s treatment of it are not established.
- Worth knowing
- Bereavement and war-related distress are part of the characters’ circumstances. The degree of detail or intensity in the scenes is not established.