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The shadow king

Jane Stevenson

2003303 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2003
first published
  • 2003Houghton Mifflin · 303 pages · ENGISBN 9780618149131
  • 2004Wheeler · 447 pages · ENGISBN 9781587246104
  • 2004Mariner Books · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780618485369

Balthasar Stuart, the son of Elizabeth of Bohemia and an African prince, works as a doctor in late seventeenth-century Holland, until he is driven out by the plague to build a new life in Restoration London and Barbados.

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