23 - 29 June 2025 - Broad Chalke, Salisbury
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It is 1567. Three women are in a boat headed for Lochleven Castle. Awaiting them are courtiers braying for blood, hellbent on keeping one of them under lock and key: Mary Queen of Scots. In the tower, Mary’s maids are her only allies, and the chamber their entire world. In the outside world, Mary’s kin, Queen Elizabeth claims she can do little but write. Downstairs, the shrewd jailor-courtier Margaret Erskine places her daughter-in-law Agnes in the chamber as her pair of eyes. Hope seems futile until the bewitching Lady Seton arrives. Seton’s power shifts everything in the tower and soon a plan is hatched. But which of them will risk it all to save their mistress? Flora Carr, a striking new voice in historical fiction. tells a triumphant story of desire, grit, God-given power and wiles .
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