For My Sins - Couverture souple

Nye, Alex

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905916787 ISBN 13 : 9781905916788

Editeur : Fledgling Press, 2017

Synopsis

The year is 1586, and Mary Stuart is sitting in an English prison cell at the end of her life, stitching her tapestries, haunted by the ghosts of her past - including John Knox, Bothwell, her half-brother Moray, and Darnley, the husband she was accused of conspiring to murder.

Darnley's murder became a mystery crime which remains unsolved to this day.

Only Mary can tell the true version of events, whilst quietly stitching her braid and entertaining the ghosts of her past.She has been Elizabeth's reluctant 'guest' for eighteen years, but she still has her supporters, most notably a young nobleman called Anthony Babington.

As her needle weaves in and out of the fine linen, she plots for Elizabeth's downfall. Her life before this was marked by murder, conspiracy and intrigue in the dark Scottish courts of Renaissance Europe and for Mary it is not over yet.

This is a novel written from Mary s perspective. She tells her own story the secrets, the lies, the truth about what she really felt and thought of the men who tried to control her and the country she was born to rule.

Fresh insights, fresh material, original perspective. What it was like to be her...

The corridors of power, the conspiracy and intrigue, the factionalism and religious division...a woman in a man s world, up against the odds.

Still criticized, still loved... Only she can tell the truth.

If she writes it down now before her death, who will be entrusted to keep this memoir alive?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alex Nye is an award-winning children's author. She grew up in Norfolk by the sea, but has lived in Scotland since 1995 where she finds much of her inspiration in Scottish history. At the age of 16 she won the W H Smith Young Writers' Award out of 33,000 entrants, and has been writing ever since.

Her first children's novel, CHILL, won the Scottish Children's Book of the Year Award.

She likes to spend her time walking her dog, swimming, scribbling in notebooks, and tapping away on her laptop. She also teaches and delivers workshops on creative writing/ghost stories/Scottish history. She graduated from King's College, London more years ago than she cares to admit.

For My Sins is Alex's first historical novel for adults.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fledgling Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905916787
• ISBN 13: 9781905916788
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible