Elizabeth I had criminalised Catholicism in England: for refusing to attend Anglican services her subjects faced fines and imprisonment; for giving refuge to outlawed priests they risked death. This book explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of a Catholic aristocr[...]
This book was longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was awarded a Sunday Times Book of the Year, a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year, a Times Book of the Year, and, an Observer Book of the Year. A woman awakes in a prison cell. She has been on the run but the authorities have tr[...]