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    Lady Macbeth's Daughter
    Lady Macbeth's Daughter
    Lady Macbeth's Daughter
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    Lady Macbeth's Daughter

    By Lisa Klein

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    Raised by three strange sisters, Albia has never known the secrets of her parentage. But when Macbeth seeks out the weird sisters to foretell his fate, his life is entangled with his unknown daughter's. When Albia foresees the terrible future, she becomes determined to save Macbeth's rival-and the man she loves-from her murderous father. Klein's seamlessly drawn tale makes it seem impossible that Albia was not part of Shakespeare's original play.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateSep 28, 2010
    ISBN9781599906232
    Lady Macbeth's Daughter
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    Lisa Klein

    LISA KLEIN is the author of Lady Macbeth's Daughter, Two Girls of Gettysburg, and Ophelia. A former professor of English, she lives in Ohio with her family. www.authorlisaklein.com

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    • 4/5
      The author proposes that Macbeth ordered his disabled infant to be killed. However, she was protected and raised by the three infamous witches. Lady Macbeth is a sympathetic character. The author blends characters from Shakespeare's play with those of her own creation. The novel highlights the plight of women whose entire existence depended upon the whims of men.
    • 4/5
      Excellent book until the end. It felt like all the loose ends were tied up in a hurry.
    • 3/5
      I almost started hating Albia about halfway through. Her love for Fleance was baffling and her attitude was irksome. I think that Klein did a decent job adding to Shakespeare's tale - too bad I didn't like the heroine more.
    • 4/5
      This was pretty good for a YA novel. It is a version of William Shakespeare's MacBeth as told from the viewpoint of Macbeth's and Lady Macbeth's daughter if she had existed. It goes back and forth from Albia, the daughter (who was thrown to the wolves for being a cripple), and Grelach aka Lady MacBeth. Readers will see how MacBeth wrongfully attains the kingship of Scotland and how Grelach assisted him. There is a rebellion among the thanes as MacBeth starts to lose his mind due to the guilt he feels from his bloody actions. While the rebellion is rising against the king, Albia is being raised by some "witches" in the forest and she also has the "sight" or ability to see the future. Her "sight" plays a major role in the actions of MacBeth. When Albia is sent to live with a wealthy thane she falls in love with the nobelmans's son as well as learns her true parentage. She must deal with the knowledge that she is spawned from "monsters" and some deep emotional questions arise regarding forgiveness and revenge. She learns to yield a sword and hold a shield and these weapons of war as well as her sight and a horse and a few of her friends begin a journey to save Scotland from the mad king. The ending holds confrontations with both of her biological parents. Does Albia have the ability to forgive?Four stars instead of five because I have read Susan Fraser King's "Lady MacBeth" and preferred her version to this one. This one has both MacBeth and his wife appearing as greedy, power hungry tyrants when in actuality, MacBeth ruled a peaceful Scotland for 6 years. For the young adult crowd, however, this is a great re telling of the Shakepeare tale.
    • 4/5
      In Lady Macbeth's Daughter Lisa Klein has written a beautiful story that is based on Shakespeare's Macbeth. She has imagined her tale based upon the idea of a lost daughter banished by Macbeth and raised by three sisters in the Wychelm Wood. Named Albia, this young girl does not know her true parents or the strange circumstances surrounding her origins. As she grows into her teenage years, Albia begins to piece together information about her past. It is difficult for her to come to terms with the crimes of her mother and father, but she realizes that she can make her own choices. She falls in love and eventually fights for what she believes is right for Scotland.Lisa Klein is a skilled writer with a talent for creating a mysterious atmosphere that pulled me into the story and had me wondering how it would all work out. It portrays the difficulties of growing up and distancing yourself from your childhood while recognizing and appreciating your loyalties. The themes are ones that would ring true with teenagers and young adults. The story was complex enough to keep me interested, but not too complex that it was hard to follow. I enjoyed the ending. Albia is a heroine that shows amazing courage and who puts the needs of her country before her own. In this way she is a true princess. I hope that young people who read Lady Macbeth's Daughter are also inspired to read Shakespeare's Macbeth.
    • 5/5
      In this novel, set in 11th century Scotland, author Lisa Klein starts with the premise that Macbeth and his wife had a baby daughter, born with a deformed leg. Macbeth, in his anger that she was not the healthy son he longed for, left the infant to die. Lady Macbeth, not much more than a girl herself in a time when women had no power, was helpless to stop him, and grieves the death of her daughter as well as the subsequent pregnancies she loses, believing herself cursed. These losses shape her character and set the stage for the tragic events she later participates in. What neither of them know, however, is that their baby daughter did not die. She was saved by Lady Macbeth's serving woman, Rhuven, who took her to live with her sisters in the Wychelm Wood. The sisters name the child Albia, and the little girl grows up believing one of the sisters to be her mother. The years pass by peacefully, until the year Albia turns fifteen and great turmoil comes to Scotland. King Duncan is murdered, and Albia is sent to live with a foster family - Banquo, his wife Breda, and their son Fleance. And there is turmoil inside Albia as well - she is confused by her feelings for the attractive but maddening Fleance, and she longs to know the identity of her father. When she learns the truth about her heritage - and that her birth parents murdered the king in order to seize the throne - she struggles with her feelings of revulsion at what her parents have done and determines that she must destroy them and bring peace and justice to Scotland. Lady Macbeth's Daughter is a rather interesting and complex novel. It is mainly told from the point of view of Albia, although we also see some events from the point of view of Lady Macbeth. Her perspective, and the difficult life she lived, made her actions, wrong though they were, seem more understandable. Overall the story and the ending especially were rather thought-provoking, making me think a lot about the motivations of various characters, and wondering what happened afterwards. I would recommend this book to readers, young adult and older, who enjoy either historical fiction or unique retellings of Shakespeare's plays.

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