Adult

In 1837, less than a month after her 18th birthday, Alexandrina Victoria --- sheltered, small in stature, and female --- became Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Yet from the moment William IV died, the young Queen startled everyone: abandoning her hated first name in favor of Victoria; insisting, for the first time in her life, on sleeping in a room apart from her mother; resolute about meeting with her ministers alone. Drawing on Victoria’s diaries as well as her own brilliant gifts for history and drama, Daisy Goodwin, brings the young queen even more richly to life in this magnificent novel.