Annie Garthwaite
The King's Mother Cecily
Annie Garthwaite
 
 
 

Four Mothers. One Crown.

Cecily – King’s Mother

Marguerite – deposed queen

Elizabeth – betrayed wife

Margaret – mother to an exiled son

 A story of maternal ferocity.

Book of the Month - The Times: “A Triumph!”

“An electrifying read”: The Daily Mail

 
 
 
 

You are born high, but marry a traitor’s son. You play the game. Slowly you rise.

You are Cecily.

But when the will to survive becomes ambition for the Crown, will you risk treason to secure it?

Independent Bookshop Best Seller

Times and Sunday Times ‘top pick’

A Waterstones Best Book of 2021

 
 
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