Weaving together a dark mystery of thwarted love and ruthless ambition, acclaimed historian Alison Weir has written the most suspenseful, large-scale novel of her career.
Weaving together a dark mystery of thwarted love and ruthless ambition, acclaimed historian Alison Weir has written the most suspenseful, large-scale novel of her career.
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the Queen's title. Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly voices; echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room where she is imprisoned…
'Weir provides immense satisfaction. She writes in a pacy, vivid style, engaging the heart as well as the mind' THE INDEPENDENT 'Weir's knowledge of the background is immaculate, and she revels in the freedom of fiction without sacrificing historical fact' THE TIMES
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