Now Lucy Jago returns A Net for Small Fishes (Bloomsbury) with a sumptuous 17 th century novel based on the true story of the scandal at the heart of the Jacobean court. Lucy Jago is an award winning writer and her book The Northern Lights (Hamish Hamilton) published in 2001 won the National Biography Prize. But as they gain notice, they also gain enemies what began as a search for love and safety leads to desperate acts that could cost them everything. With the marriage of their talents, Anne and Frankie enter this extravagant, savage hunting ground, seeking a little happiness for themselves. Frankie sweeps Anne into a world of splendour that exceeds all she imagined: A Court whose foreign king is a stranger to his own subjects where ancient families fight for power, and where the sovereign’s favourite may rise and rise – so long as he remains in favour. When these two very different women meet in the strangest of circumstances, a powerful friendship is sparked. Little stands between her and the abyss of destitution. Frances Howard has beauty and a powerful family – and is the most unhappy creature in the world.Īnne Turner has wit and talent – but no stage on which to display them.
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