The acclaimed account of an extraordinary life previously lost in history yet spanning both Tudor and Stuart courts and encompassing espionage, a clandestine marriage, elopement, imprisonment and eventual death in the Tower of London.
After leaving Oxford, Sarah Gristwood worked as a journalist
specializing in the arts and women's issues. She is a regular
contributor to The Times, Guardian, Independent and the Evening
Standard.
Arbella, her historical biography of Arbella Stuart, was widely
acclaimed in hardcover, and is available as a Bantam paperback. Her
forthcoming anthology of women's diaries through the ages will also
be published in paperback by Bantam Books in 2006.
'Utterly compelling...an exquisite jewel of a book'
*Alison Weir*
'Carrying her learning lightly, Sarah Gristwood presents a powerful
story of the dynastic insecurity of the Tudors and Stuart'
*The Sunday Times*
'Sarah Gristwood succeeds triumphantly...an enthralling account of
an extraordinary life'
*Spectator*
'She teases out some vivid threads...and deftly weaves them into a
startling "pattern of misfortune"...The delights are in the detail,
and Gristwood makes the most of them'
*Daily Telegraph*
'Well researched and stimulating...A sad but enthralling story'
*Evening Standard*
'Utterly compelling...an exquisite jewel of a book' -- Alison
Weir
'Carrying her learning lightly, Sarah Gristwood presents a powerful
story of the dynastic insecurity of the Tudors and Stuart' * The
Sunday Times *
'Sarah Gristwood succeeds triumphantly...an enthralling account of
an extraordinary life' * Spectator *
'She teases out some vivid threads...and deftly weaves them into a
startling "pattern of misfortune"...The delights are in the detail,
and Gristwood makes the most of them' * Daily Telegraph *
'Well researched and stimulating...A sad but enthralling story' *
Evening Standard *
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