Description Cecily must focus her will to defeat every challenge. Wherever they come from. Whatever the cost. For there can be only one King, and only one King’s Mother. From the Wars of the Roses to the dawn of the Tudor age, this is a story of mothers and sons; of maternal ferocity and female ambition – of all they can build and all they can destroy. PRAISE FOR ANNIE GARTHWAITE: ‘Elegant and propulsive . . . I had to fight myself to put it down’ A.K. Blakemore ‘Family dynamics at their most fierce – timeless and brilliant!’ Kate Sawyer ‘Has the new Hilary Mantel arrived?’ Sunday Telegraph ‘A vividly female perspective on the Wars of the Roses’ Imogen Hermes Gowar
