Treachery in Love and War in the Struggle for the English Crown From the time he sees his parents brutally slain and his home destroyed in a bloody Lancastrian power struggle for the crown, young Martin Robsart's life becomes entwined with that of England's royal Plantagenet family. Through the turbulence of civil war, Martin serves his cousins -- Yorkist kings Edward IV and Richard III -- and learns the cost of loyalty and love in battlefields and bedchambers in a time when life is cheap and treachery hides behind a smile. Through Martin's eyes, Meredith Whitford's superbly researched and richly woven novel shows Shakespeare's conniving and perverse Richard III in a realistic new light - as a patriot and a lover. Never before has perceived history taken such a surprising turn as Whitford corrects the Shakespearean myth and crowns a new hero, bringing back to life the passion and heat of a breathless historical moment that shaped the world - a moment we know as the War of the Roses .a time of thorns and treason.
Meredith Whitford lives in Adelaide, South Australia. She has a husband, two adult children, a daughter-in-law, a gorgeous grandson and usually two cats.
Educated entirely after leaving school, she finally went to university as a mature-age student. She has a BA in History, English and Classics. In 2010 she began a Master of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) degree at Flinders University, Adelaide.
She has been Director of Between Us Manuscript Assessment Service (www.betweenusmanuscripts.com) since 1998.
Her first novel, Treason, won the 2002 international Eppie Award for historical fiction. It is published by BeWrite Books. Since then she has given up on a contemporary novel, and is three-quarters of the way through a biography of Jessica Mitford and her
first husband, Esmond Romilly, nephew of Sir Winston Churchill.
When she is not writing or reading (and she usually is) her hobbies are cryptic crosswords, being pedantic, watching Top Gear, and sleeping.
She suffers from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME). On the up side, she has the great good luck to be a synaesthete.
She can be contacted at meredithwh@yahoo.com
