TY - BOOK AU - Goodwin, Daisy, TI - Victoria: a novel SN - 9780755396108 (trade paperback) U1 - 823/.92 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Headline Review KW - Victoria, KW - Albert, KW - Great Britain KW - Kings and rulers KW - Succession KW - History KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Biographical fiction N2 - 'A confident, skilful storyteller. Pure, light-hearted, unpretentious entertainment' Sunday Express Windsor Castle 1869 Florence Carmody is six foot tall and has the colour of a ripe pumpkin. English by birth, she has grown up in San Francisco. Now she has come home, and thanks to the machinations of her wily grandmother, she has been chosen to be a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria. Florence is an expert on scalps and a collector of fairy tales, but no story by Grimm can compete with the reality of life at court ER -