Annie Garthwaite discusses her fascination with Cecily Neville – mother of Edward IV and Richard III – with writer and Wars of the Roses specialist, Matt Lewis. Cecily’s political skill and determination are renowned and Annie’s first book about her, Cecily, was voted ‘Book of the Year’ by independent booksellers and has been optioned for T.V. The King’s Mother follows Cecily’s story from the Wars of the Roses to the dawn of the Tudor age. It’s a history of mothers and sons, maternal ferocity and female ambition.
