1605, and Anne Catesby fears for her family. Her son, the darkly charismatic Robert, is secretly plotting to kill the King, placing his wife and child in grave danger. Anne must make a terrible choice: betray her only child, or risk her family’s future.
Present day: When her dreams of becoming a musician are shattered, Lucy takes refuge in her family’s ancestral home in Oxfordshire.
Everyone knows it was originally home to Robert Catesby, the gunpowder plotter.
As Lucy spends more time in the beautiful winter garden that Robert had made, she starts to have strange visions of a woman in Tudor dress, terrified and facing a heartbreaking dilemma.
As Lucy and Anne’s stories converge, a shared secret that has echoed through the centuries separating them, will change Lucy’s life forever…
The Winter Garden by Nicola Cornick is published on 27 October, 2022.
Nicola’s feature about the women of the Gunpowder Plot is Historia’s top story on 5 November, 2022.
Read Historia’s interview with her.
