What is the author's style in The Queen's Fool: A Novel by Philippa Gregory?

Philippa Gregory's novel, The Queen's Fool, is written from the first person point of view. The main character, Hannah, imparts the story to the reader. As such, her own life and impressions are woven into the text. One can determine that it is written in the first person point of view because the narrator uses the words I and we to describe herself. This point of view creates a richness to the character. The reader is compelled to learn about Hannah's life, how she feels and what she thinks. An additional result of the use of first person point of view is bias. Because all the other characters are described by Hannah, each description is naturally tinted by her feelings towards them. Their interactions may be interpreted less as factual and more as her perception of what occurred. Hannah was not a greedy character. She does not have an ulterior motive that drives her actions, and so it is unlikely that her recollections are fraught with error, although the possibility is worth mentioning. For example, perhaps an alternate character would have described Mrs. Carpenter as being generous, where Hannah described her as cold and demanding. A single character using the first person point of view does not allow the story to be told from a different perspective, but it does lend to a connection between the main character and the reader.