A Net for Small Fishes, Lucy Jago
A Net for Small Fishes, Lucy Jago
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A Net for Small Fishes
A Novel

Author: Lucy Jago

Narrator: Sarah Durham

Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/16/2021


Synopsis

"A bravura historical debut . . . a gloriously immersive escape." —Guardian

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court.

With Frankie, I could have the life I had always wanted . . . and with me she could forge something more satisfying from her own . . .

When Frances Howard, beautiful but unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex, meets the talented Anne Turner, the two strike up an unlikely, yet powerful, friendship. Frances makes Anne her confidante, sweeping her into a glamorous and extravagant world, riven with bitter rivalry.

As the women grow closer, each hopes to change her circumstances. Frances is trapped in a miserable marriage while loving another, and newly-widowed Anne struggles to keep herself and her six children alive as she waits for a promised proposal. A desperate plan to change their fortunes is hatched. But navigating the Jacobean court is a dangerous game and one misstep could cost them everything.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

About Lucy Jago

Lucy Jago is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction and Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. Her first book, The Northern Lights, won the National Biography prize and has been translated into eight languages. She was awarded a Double First Class Honours Degree from King's College, University of Cambridge, and a master's degree from the Courtauld Institute, London. She lives in Somerset.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee

This historical fiction is based on the true story of the scandal that rocks the court of James I. It centres around the marriage of Frances Howard to the abusive Earl of Essex, her affair with the Kings favourite Robert Carr and the poisoning of poet Sir Thomas Overbury and the subsequent trial. It......more