Tiptree longlist 1999. I tried hard, got over 1/3rd of the way through, but just couldn't be bothered to finish this.
It jumped back and forth in time but was written in such a flat style I couldn't readily tell where we were in the timeline until well into each section and thus got confused over what was going on.
Initially it seemed like it was going to be about political machinations in a sort of generic MediaevalWorld with a female protagonist, but that petered out and we were treated to a lot of tedious traipsing about after a rich spoilt brat and other assorted gormless aristos. ( )