Watch the Lady

The research and historical detail are impeccable … and fans will enjoy this evocation of Elizabeth’s tumultuous court * Times *
A glamourous tale peopled by warrior poets, flamboyant courtiers and shameless loves, it is also sharp, perceptive and dramatic * Sunday Express *
Be transported to the court of Elizabeth I, where Penelope Devereux is prepared to do anything in the scramble for power. Watch The Lady by Elizabeth Fremantle combines fast-paced storytelling with rich period detail * Good Housekeeping *
If you want an immersive read then this is it. The remarkable story of the beautiful Penelope Devereux comes vividly alive, bursting with colour and detail. The reader is transported to the perilous Elizabethan court, with all its plots, treachery and heartbreak, and gains fascinating insights into some of the most important figures of the time. Yet again Elizabeth Fremantle has produced a pacey, powerful narrative that kept this reader riveted throughout * Jane Thynne *
Penelope Devereux, perspicacious, beautiful and muse of Sir Philip Sidney, will stop at nothing for the sake of her family. I was gripped by the tale of risky political and sexual shenanigans in the court of Elizabeth l * Woman and Home *
Penelope is a fascinating character and beautifully drawn in this enthralling, moving and immaculately written novel… Fremantle handles the intriguing with aplomb and it’s impossible to read the books without feeling you are living events alongside the characters – Imogen Robertson * Historia *
An endlessly fascinating era, and Fremantle manages to combine pacey storytelling with superb background… it’s terrifically entertaining. * The Times *
Fremantle is surely a major new voice in historical fiction (…) what Hilary Mantel fans should read while waiting for the final part of her trilogy * The Bookseller *
Rich and Enticing * Stylist *
Telling the story of the Elizabethan court, with all it’s plots and intrigues * Woman Magazine *

Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels- Firebrand (formerly Queen’s Gambit and recently an acclaimed feature film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law)), Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. As E.C. Fremantle she has written two historical thrillers- The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Disobedient, her feminist retelling of the life of seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, won the 2024 Historical Writers Gold Crown Award. She lives in London.

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