The spellbinding new Tudor novel from Sunday Times bestseller Alison Weir. ''Nobody brings historical characters to life like Alison Weir, with her instinct for illuminating period detail and dramatic storytelling'' TRACY BORMAN Boleyn women. Passionate, legendary, full of secrets... At twelve years old, Kate Carey attends her aunt, Queen Anne Boleyn, to the scaffold. Horrified by what she witnesses, Kate is convinced that King Henry VIII has sent an innocent woman to a terrible death. As the Boleyns fall from favour, Kate serves her now motherless cousin, the young Lady Elizabeth. Bound by Boleyn blood, the two girls grow as close as sisters, until Kate marries for love - and leaves a jealous Elizabeth behind. At court, Kate cannot ignore the sly looks thrown her way, nor the whispers behind her back. Only when her mother, Mary, lies dying, does she learn the life-shattering truth that the Boleyns have been hiding for years. It is a secret that will follow Kate throughout her life, as she flees religious persecution with her husband and lives abroad in fear, only returning home when Elizabeth becomes queen. But the bond between the Boleyn cousins will never be the same again... PRAISE FOR ALISON WEIR''S TUDOR FICTION ''History has the best stories and they should all be told like this'' CONN IGGULDEN ''As always, Alison Weir is ahead of the curve - and at the top of her game'' SARAH GRISTWOOD ''Alison Weir makes history come alive as no one else'' BARBARA ERSKINE ''Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life'' GUARDIAN ''Profoundly moving... lingers long after the last page'' ELIZABETH FREMANTLE

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Alison Weir is a bestselling historical novelist of Tudor fiction, and the leading female historian in the United Kingdom. She has published more than thirty books, including many leading works of non-fiction, and has sold over three million copies worldwide.

Her novels include the Tudor Rose trilogy, which spans three generations of history's most iconic family - the Tudors, and the highly acclaimed Six Tudor Queens series about the wives of Henry VIII, all of which were Sunday Times bestsellers.

Alison is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an honorary life patron of Historic Royal Palaces.