Elizabeth Chadwick - Lady of the English - 2nd December @ 7pm

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We are delighted to welcome Elizabeth Chadwick to Cole's on Friday 2nd December @ 7pm. Elizabeth will be reading from and discussing her latest novel - 'Lady of the English' as well as some of her previous work.

Elizabeth Chadwick lives near Nottingham. Her first novel, The Wild Hunt, won a Betty Trask Award. She has written fifteen historical novels, four of which have been shortlisted for awards. Elizabeth's nineteenth novel, To Defy A King, won the Romantic Novelist Association Historical Novel Prize in 2011.

The Lady of the English - Two very different women are linked by destiny and the struggle for the English crown. Matilda, daughter of Henry I, returns to England when her husband, the Emperor of Germany, dies. Her father promises her that she will succeed him, but at the same time marginalises her by marrying her to Geoffrey, the adolescent count of Anjou, more than ten years her junior. Despite her nightmare second marriage, Matilda remains unbowed and when her father dies, she is determined to win back her crown from her cousin Stephen who has usurped it. Adeliza, Henry's widowed queen and Matilda's stepmother, has become a good friend. Having been widowed, she now now marries William D'Albini, one of Stephen’s staunchest supporters. Both Adeliza and Matilda are strong in their own way, and prepared to stand firm for what they know is right. But in a world where a man's word is law, how can Adeliza obey her husband while supporting Matilda, the rightful queen? And for Matilda pride comes before a fall ...What price for a crown? What does it cost to be 'Lady of the English'?

Tickets for this event are £5 and include wine/fruit juice and nibbles. Your ticket will also give you 10% off anything you purchase on the night.