Following her hugely popular appearance at Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival 2023 with her debut novel, author and historian Annie Garthwaite returns with the KING’S MOTHER the follow up to CECILY.
 
Through blood and battle Edward has gained England's throne - king by right and conquest - eighteen years old and unstoppable. Cecily, having piloted her family's rise to power, stands beside him as England's first King's Mother.
But to win a throne is not to keep it, and war is come again. As brother betrays brother, and trusted cousins turn treacherous, other mothers rise up to fight for other sons. Cecily must focus her will to defeat every challenge. Wherever they come from. Whatever the cost.
For there can only be one King, and only one King's Mother.
 
From the Wars of the Roses to the dawn of the Tudor age, this is a story of mothers and sons, of maternal ferocity and female ambition - of all they can build and all they can destroy.
 
Annie Garthwaite is the acclaimed author of two novels that bring the women of the Wars of the Roses to life. Cecily (Viking, Penguin 2021) was named a 'top pick' by The Times and Sunday Times, a 'Best Book of 2021' by independent bookshops and Waterstones, and has recently been optioned for television. The King's Mother (Viking, Penguin 2024) was named ‘Book of the Month’ by The Times immediately upon publication. Annie came to writing after a 30-year international business career, determined to cast light on a female history so often overlooked.