ABOUT THE BOOK
Thrilling time-slip historical fiction about
the enigmatic Lady Mary Seymour, daughter of Henry VIII’s
widow Katherine Parr.
“She had not told him a single thing
about her family. She had never spoken of them. But they were all there on the
pages of notes she had so painstakingly compiled. The Seymour family tree
linked them together, tangled as the roots of the old oaks of Savernake Forest.
They were all there: she, Edward, Mary, Arthur…”
Wiltshire, Autumn 2016. Deep in a small,
unassuming art shop, Alison Bannister stumbles upon a newly discovered Tudor
portrait, supposedly of Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better, the woman is
Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557
as an unwanted orphan and presumed dead after going missing as a child.
Alison is not from the modern world. She
has travelled a long way, waited 500 years, to find a clue as valuable as this
portrait. For the painting holds the key to Mary Seymour’s mysterious
disappearance and Alison’s own unhappy quest.
Alison and Mary have made an agreement
which transcends time. Alison will help Mary escape Wolf Hall and Mary will find
Alison’s baby boy.
