- Published: 19 May 2022
- ISBN: 9781529195675
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $26.99
The Siege of Loyalty House
A new history of the English Civil War
- Published: 19 May 2022
- ISBN: 9781529195675
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- RRP: $26.99
Brilliant. Original. Gripping.
Antonia Fraser
Extraordinary. Exhaustively researched and beautifully (and wittily) written, a thrilling and immersive tale that offers the reader a rare window into the terrifying events of the English Civil War when religion and ambition divided families, friends and neighbours. One of the finest books I've read for years, a stunning achievement
Saul David
Extraordinary: meticulously researched, beautifully written, and heartbreakingly relevant. I urge you to read it
Helen Castor
She is a gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are the ones we all should know
Hilary Mantel
In this stunning feat of historical reconstruction, Jessie Childs brings England's brutal civil conflict to life, illuminating the human experience, and human cost, of this devastating war. A work of deep scholarship, The Siege of Loyalty House is gripping, moving, unputdownable
Thomas Penn
Perhaps just because the history is so painful, and to some almost incomprehensible, the Civil War has never really registered in British history as powerfully as it should. That will change with Jessie Childs' extraordinary Siege of Loyalty House: a thrilling, immersive read, especially searing in our own tormented and besieged times. Her beautiful writing drops the reader deep in the war, sees it through a cast of extraordinary characters from both sides of the terrible conflict, but most of all, shines with a compassionate understanding of human courage, folly, obstinacy and frailty, at times almost Tolstoyan in its emotional intelligence and literary power
Simon Schama
Jessie Childs is one of the finest historians working today; her illuminating, deeply researched, and beautifully written books are never anything short of superlative, and here she does it again. This is a vivid, thrilling story, rendered in delicious prose and brilliant with gems dug from the archives
Suzannah Lipscomb