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  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781405909402
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $24.99
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Sisters of Treason




Following the acclaimed Queen's Gambit comes a new novel of intrigue and menace at the Tudor Court

In a court ruled by a paranoid Queen, possessing royal blood can be the gravest crime of all...

Fearing traitors amongst her court, the aging Queen Mary orders the execution of her cousin, Lady Jane Grey. Cursed with royal blood her young sisters Katherine and Mary must now face the Tudor court alone.

Katherine, a beauty amongst the queen's maids, makes dangerous romantic liaisons. While fiercely clever Mary reluctantly becomes the Queen's confidante.

And so Katherine and Mary find themselves in a maze of treachery, suspicion and danger - where royal blood could be their death warrant. . .

  • Published: 25 February 2015
  • ISBN: 9781405909402
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 496
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Elizabeth Fremantle

Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels: Firebrand (formerly Queen’s Gambit and recently an acclaimed feature film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law)), Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. As E.C. Fremantle she has written two historical thrillers: The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Disobedient, her feminist retelling of the life of seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, won the 2024 Historical Writers Gold Crown Award. She lives in London.

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Praise for Sisters of Treason

An endlessly fascinating era, and Fremantle manages to combine pacey storytelling with superb background. . .terrifically entertaining.

The Times

Fremantle is surely a major new voice in historical fiction (...) what Hilary Mantel fans should read while waiting for the final part of her trilogy

The Bookseller

A sumptuous epic

Metro

Gripping

Woman & Home

A great read. Sisters of Treason totally transports the reader to the Tudor court, with all its tensions and games

Katherine Webb, author of The Misbegotten

Electric

Good Housekeeping

Rich and enticing

Stylist

Elizabeth Fremantle brings the decadent, conniving, back-stabbing world of the 16th-century British court to brilliant life here, revealing what one woman can teach us all about the timeless art of survival

Andrea Walker, Oprah.com