Book description
The year is 1562. Lady Catherine Grey, cousin of Elizabeth I, has
just been arrested along with her husband Edward. Their crime is to
have secretly married and produced a child who might threaten the
Queen's title.
Alone in her chamber at the Tower of London, Catherine hears ghostly
voices, echoes, she thinks, of a crime committed in the same room
where she is imprisoned.
The story flashes back to 1483 and another Catherine - Kate
Plantaganet, bastard daughter of Richard III. She has heard terrible
rumours of the death of the young deposed Edward V and his brother
(the Princes in the Tower) but loyalty to her father prevents her
believing them. After his death at Bosworth, she is viewed with
suspicion by Henry VII's court, even more so when she becomes
pregnant.
Catherine, too, is pregnant, a friendly warder having sneaked Edward
into her room. She finds documents relating to Kate's life and gets
swept up both in Kate's story and the mystery of the Princes, which
she realises Kate never solved.
Kate dies in childbirth and it is left to Catherine to discover the
truth about the Princes.
Alison Weir lives and works in Surrey. Her books include several
works of non-fiction,
Britain's Royal Families
,
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
,
Children of England
,
Eleanor of Aquitaine
,
Henry VIII: King and Court
,
Mary, Queen of Scots
and
Isabella: She-Wolf of France
as well as four novels,
Innocent Traitor
