An Evening with Annie Garthwaite in Cambridge

Join critically acclaimed author of Cecily, Annie Garthwaite, as she talks about her highly-anticipated new novel, The King’s Mother. From the Wars of the Roses to the dawn of the Tudor age, this is a story of mothers and sons; of maternal ferocity and female ambition - of all they can build and all they can destroy.

With energy and ambition, The King’s Mother takes us from the Wars of the Roses to the dawn of the Tudor age – and tells the story of those era-defining wars through the eyes of four women who shaped and suffered them: Cecily Neville; King’s Mother; Marguerite of Anjou; deposed Queen; Elizabeth Woodville, betrayed wife; and Margaret Beaufort – mother to an exiled son.

Annie Garthwaite is the author of the highly-acclaimed Cecily. She grew up in a working-class community in the north-east of England before embarking on a thirty-year career in international business. In 2017, she returned to her first love - books - and began writing the story of a lifelong fascination, Cecily Neville. Her first novel, Cecily, was named a ‘top pick' by The Times and Sunday Times and a 'Best Book of 2021' by independent bookshops and Waterstones. It has now been optioned for television.

Host or Publisher Waterstones