The story of the fall of Anne Boleyn as it has never been told - this time with ravens.
Young Kit finds himself on a plague cart wedged between the bodies of his mother and father. But he is alive and is rescued and taken into the home of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London. He soon finds he can speak the language of the big black birds, a skill which proves useful when he finds himself caught up in a story of queens and treason, princesses and executioners.
There can be no change in the history of Henry Vlll's first two wives but without Kit and the ravens another Tudor monarch might never have survived.
"The Ravenmaster's Boy is a dark but charming Tudor tale - history with a twist. The events of May 1536 - the days of the fall of the Boleyn regime - are still cloudy and mysterious, and it is possible that the birds of the air know as much as the rest of us about what really happened and why."
Hilary Mantel
author of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Young Kit finds himself on a plague cart wedged between the bodies of his mother and father. But he is alive and is rescued and taken into the home of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London. He soon finds he can speak the language of the big black birds, a skill which proves useful when he finds himself caught up in a story of queens and treason, princesses and executioners.
There can be no change in the history of Henry Vlll's first two wives but without Kit and the ravens another Tudor monarch might never have survived.
"The Ravenmaster's Boy is a dark but charming Tudor tale - history with a twist. The events of May 1536 - the days of the fall of the Boleyn regime - are still cloudy and mysterious, and it is possible that the birds of the air know as much as the rest of us about what really happened and why."
Hilary Mantel
author of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
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