Grania in book reviews

author: Morgan Llywelyn

I've read a number of this author's books before. She usually writes about the far past history of countries that became part of the British Empire. (For and Anglophile... heaven... LOL)

This one is about the "she-king" of part of Ireland - mostly the northeast. Grania (or Grace O'Malley as she was known in England) was the contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I. She was the only child of her parents and since her father was a sea-going man, he took her on his ships.

She was a wild, fearless woman who did things her way - she traded, she warred, she conquered, she bedded whatever man struck her fancy. She was known as a pirate, but she did SO much more.

The book is VERY well written and you feel as if you either know her well, or would like to have met her in person.