CECILY by Annie Garthwaite

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ACCLAIM FOR CECILY – AN EPIC FEMINIST RETELLING OF THE WAR OF THE ROSES

‘Has the new Hilary Mantel arrived?’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘Masterful and majestic; England’s unspoken history told by one brilliant woman through the life of another. This important novel blazes on every page from its brutal first scene to its glittering final act’ CHRIS CLEAVE, author of Everyone Brave is Forgiven

‘Entirely absorbing and utterly compelling. Fifteenth century England leaps from the page, with all its political turmoil and bloodshed. I loved it’ CAROLINE LEA, author of The Glass Women

‘Cecily stalks the corridors of power like a female Thomas Cromwell. A vividly female perspective on the Wars of the Roses – what a feat’ IMOGEN HERMES GOWER, author of The Mermaid and Mr Hancock