The Caribbean, 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run — from their pasts, from the British Navy and the threat of execution, and from the destiny that fate has written for them.
Plantation owner’s daughter, runaway wife, pirate — Anne Bonny has forged her own story in a man’s world. But when she is involved in the capture of a British merchant ship, she is amazed to find another woman amongst the crew, with a history as unconventional as her own.
Dressed as a boy from childhood, Mary Read has been a soldier, a sailor, a widow — but never a woman in charge of her own destiny.
As their exhilarating, tumultuous exploits find fame, the ballad of Bonny and Read is sung from shore to shore — but when you swim against the tide of history, freedom is a dangerous thing.
Bonny & Read by Julie Walker is published in paperback on 4 May, 2023.
