The Fairmile Series will depart from fictionalising the Tudor and Plantagenet courts to tell a “richly imagined, multi-generational story spanning three centuries and continents, with one family at its heart”. The deal, signed last week, is for three works of fiction and one of non-fiction. Multi-million-pound selling historical author Philippa Gregory is to take her fiction in a new direction in a four-book global deal with her publisher Simon & Schuster. All of her books feature strong, complex women, doing their best to improve their lives in worlds dominated by men’ Sunday Times ' Immaculate research, pacy narratives and a stubborn insistence that history is not only about men. It would be hard to make history more entertaining, lively or engaging' Sunday Express ‘Gregory has popularised Tudor history perhaps more than any other living fiction writer.
THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Praise for Philippa Gregory: ‘ Popular historical fiction at its finest, immaculately researched and superbly told’ The Times 'Philippa Gregory is truly the mistress of the historical novel. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands – the marshy landscape of the south coast. Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. A dangerous time for a woman to be different. ***PRE-ORDER DAWNLANDS, THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM PHILIPPA GREGORY, OUT SOON IN PAPERBACK*** England 1648.
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