PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
H.F.M. Prescott (1896-1972) is best known for her historical novel The Man on a Donkey and her biography of Mary Tudor which won the James Tait Black Prize in 1941. The daughter of a clergyman, she read Modern History at Oxford and later received MA degrees there and at Manchester. Her wide-ranging interests included travel and a deep love of the English countryside that lasted all her life.
A novel that truly brings Tudor England to life... Reading her prose is less like looking at words on a page and more like looking through a window... [Unlike] any other historical novel I've read -- Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Times By widespread assent, one of the finest historical novels ever written * TLS * The great beauty of the writing... The words caress the imagination -- Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail A classic of historical fiction... Blends real and invented characters and captures all the poignant strangeness of the era -- Hilary Mantel A masterpiece -- Eamon Duffy
