Firebrand

Firebrand

Previously published as Queen’s Gambit, now a major feature film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law

Summary

For fans of WOLF HALL and the BBC's THE WHITE QUEEN, FIREBRAND (previously published as Queen’s Gambit) is now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Michelle Williams and Sam Riley.


Dive into the Fremantle's vivid Tudor England and meet the woman who survived Henry VIII.

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My name is Katherine Parr.

I’m thirty-one years old – already twice widowed.
I love a man I can’t have.
I’m to wed a man no one would want.

He has cast aside two wives and watched another die in childbirth.
Two more have had their heads struck from their bodies, on his order.

What will become of me as Henry VIII’s sixth wife?

I will have the king’s ear. With that comes power.
But power means danger in the Tudor court.

Many have fallen. Will I fall too?


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PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH FREMANTLE


'An unforgettable, moving and important story told with great skill and care' JENNIFER SAINT

'Outstanding. A powerful novel about women who are shamed and silenced, and how they learn to survive. A literary knockout' ANNA MAZZOLA, author of The Clockwork Girl

'An unforgettable book - visceral and lush and fierce. The last few pages left me gasping. An absolute triumph' EVE CHASE

Reviews

  • ‘Electric’
    Good Housekeeping

About the author

Elizabeth Fremantle

Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels: Queen's Gambit (soon to be the feature film, Firebrand), Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. As E.C. Fremantle she has written two gripping historical thrillers: The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Her most recent novel, Disobedient, is a gripping feminist retelling of the life of seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. She lives in London.
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