Successionbegins the intense and powerful story of the women who gave birth to the Tudor dynasty . . .
Livi Michael has published six novels for adults: Rebellion, published in 2015, Succession, published in 2014; Under a Thin Moon which won the Arthur Welton award in 1992; Their Angel Reach which won the Faber prize in 1995; All the Dark Air (1997) which was shortlisted for the Mind Award; and Inheritance, which won a Society of Authors award. Livi has two sons and lives in Greater Manchester. She teaches creative writing at the Manchester Metropolitan University and has been a senior lecturer in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
Clever...the narrative has the colour and power of the best of the
chronicles she uses.
*Sunday Times*
Lively . . . Michael paints the Middle Ages in spare and elegant
prose.
*New York Times Book Review*
A heartfelt account of the eye-opening, hair-raising early life of
Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.
*Waterstones blog, ‘Author’s Books of the Year 2014’*
Portrayed beautifully, honestly
*Historical Novel Review*
Livi Michael invests intimate and poignant humanity into the
personal tragedies of an era wrought with conflict and terror
*Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Queen's Gambit*
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