The Maid of Honour

A Tudor Historical Novel of Anne Boleyn's Fall

von Eleanor Fairfax

158 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

She hears a man behind a curtain describe exactly the witness he needs. He is describing her.Cecily Verney comes to court in 1535 with one instruction from her family: be useful, marry well, survive.She has two gifts for it. Nobody remembers she is in the room. And she forgets nothing said in front of her.Within a year the queen is falling. The men building the case against Anne Boleyn want women who will swear to what they saw, and Cecily has seen more than any of them. The gentleman who befriends her is collecting names. A maid of honour is arrested. Silence is proving no safer than speech.When the summons comes, Cecily will be asked a question with no honest answer - and what she says decides which of the queen's women walk out of the Tower.The Maid of Honour opens The Queen's Women: Tudor court fiction told by the women who served, where the history is kept exactly and the forgotten lives are imagined in the gaps.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175982887
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published