God¿s Traitors Av Jessie Childs

<p><b>*Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize*</b><br><b>*Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction*</b><br><b>*A <i>Sunday Times </i>Book of the Year*</b><br><b><i>*</i>A<i> Daily Telegraph </i>Book of the Year* </b><br><b><i>*</i>A <i>Times </i>Book of the Year*</b><br><b>*An <i>Observer </i>Book of the Year*</b><br><br>A woman awakes in a prison cell.<br><br>She has been on the run but the authorities have tracked her down and taken her to the Tower of London - where she is interrogated about the Gunpowder Plot. <br><br>The woman is Anne Vaux - one of the ardent, brave and exasperating members of the aristocratic Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. <br><br>Through the eyes of this remarkable family, award-winning author Jessie Childs explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England - an age in which their faith was criminalised and almost two hundred Catholics were executed. <br><br>From dawn raids to daring escapes, stately homes to torture chambers, <i>God''s Traitors