Season 4 of The Crown, all 10 episodes, hit Netflix on November 15th, 2020. By now every avid fan has gobbled it up. Fortunately, help is at hand for aficionados of royal stories—Nicola Cornick’s The Forgotten Sister. Two women’s lives are intertwined, one historical, Amy Robsart, the first wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester…
Part history, part mystery, Nicola Cornick’s The Woman in the Lake features a beautiful, golden gown with a deadly secret and a dark past—one that threatens to possess the troubled Fen and destroy her sanity. Nicola Cornick is known for her fluid time-slip plots, which blur boundaries of time and space. The Woman in the Lake is…
The balance between fact and fiction can be a tricky one for a historical novelist. Playing fast and loose with the facts can leave a writer open to accusations of inauthenticity. Yet, if there is anything I have learned from studying history, it’s that it is not static, it is open to interpretation, and what…
The Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick is a historical mystery where the secrets of 16th-century England might unlock the answers to modern-day London mysteries. The crucial question in a time-slip story is who stays and who leaves the time period in which they were born. The Phantom Tree is a tale of two women: Mary…
