Annie Garthwaite (Book order (chronological))

Annie Garthwaite Book order (chronological)

This author delves into 15th-century history, not for its battles, but for its women. She explores how they navigated a male-dominated world, wielding power and influence against the odds. Fueled by a career in international business where she often found herself the sole woman at the table, her work investigates the complex relationship between women and power. Her narratives focus on character motivation and the strategies of survival, particularly highlighting figures who endured tumultuous times and shaped dynasties.

Cecily

384 pages
14 hours of reading

'Rebellion?' The word is a spark. They can start a fire with it, or smother it in their fingertips. She chooses to start a fire. You are born high, but marry a traitor's son. You bear him twelve children, carry his cause and bury his past. You play the game, against enemies who wish you ashes. Slowly, you rise. You are Cecily. But when the King who governs you proves unfit, what then? Loyalty or treason -- death may follow both. The board is set. Time to make your first move. Told through the eyes of its greatest unknown protagonist, this book plunges you into the closed bedchambers and bloody battlefields of the first days of the Wars of the Roses, a war as women fight it

2021

4.1