The Tower by Flora Carr Hardback Book 9781529153729

Richly detailed THE NEW YORKERCarr has taken an often overly romanticised historical figure and given her new life and originality THE TIMESA vivid visceral read TRACY CHEVALIERBold and immediate TLSThey are imprisoned but not containedThree women cross a loch It is 1567 one of them is pregnant two of them fretful The boat takes them to Lochleven castle in the middle of the water Awaiting them are courtiers braying for blood hellbent on keeping one of them under lock and key Mary Queen of ScotsIn the tower Marys maids Frenchwoman Cuckoo and watchful Scot Jane are her only allies and the chamber their entire world A new reality sets in where they are at the mercy of not only their keepers but of raging Scotland itselfIn the outside world Marys kin Queen Elizabeth claims she can do little but write Downstairs the shrewd jailorcourtier Margaret Erskine places her daughterinlaw Agnes in the chamber as her pair of eyes Hope seems futile until the bewitching Lady Seton arrives Setons power shifts everything in the tower and soon a plan is hatchedBut which of them will risk it all to save their mistress Which woman loves her queen best The Tower is a triumphant story of desire grit...