Halesworth Books, Suffolk

7pm, Friday 26 July 2024

Halesworth Books, 42 Thoroughfare, Halesworth IP19 8AR

AN EVENING WITH ANNIE GARTHWAITE - ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE KING’S MOTHER

Annie returns to Halesworth as her much anticipated second novel is published.

With energy and ambition, The King’s Mother takes us from the Wars of the Roses to the dawn of the Tudor age – and tells the story of those eradefining wars through the eyes of four women who shaped and suffered them: Cecily Neville, King’s Mother; Marguerite of Anjou, deposed Queen; Elizabeth Woodville, betrayed wife; and Margaret Beaufort, mother to an exiled son.

Reading from The King’s Mother Annie will describe all that these women did and were driven to do to win the crown for their sons and become King’s Mother themselves. “This,” she says, “is a story of mothers and sons; of maternal ferocity and female ambition – and of all the terror that families can inflict upon themselves

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