Harris & Harris, Clare, Suffolk

6:30pm, Thursday 25 July 2024

St Peter & Paul’s church, High St, Clare, Sudbury CO10 8NY

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

Join Annie as she returns to the church where Cecily Neville worshipped in the town of which she was lady. Annie returns to Clare with her long-awaited second novel - revisiting Cecily’s world and introducing the women who will challenge her to become King’s Mother.

See the Wars of the Roses through the eyes of four mothers 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 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.”

Buy tickets instore, call (01787) 277267 or email kateharris74@gmail.com. They cost just £5 and include a glass of something delicious.