Emily Howes

SELECTED FOR THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB | WINNER OF THE MSLEXIA NOVEL COMPETITION 1759, Ipswich. Sisters Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are the best of friends and do everything together. They spy on their father as he paints, they rankle their mother as she manages the books, they tear barefoot through the muddy fields that surround their home. But...

THE NUMBER ONE KINDLE BESTSELLER SELECTED FOR THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB WINNER OF THE MSLEXIA NOVEL COMPETITION 'Beautifully written . . . I raced through it' — HILARY MANTEL 'As exquisitely and tenderly rendered as a Gainsborough painting' — TRACY CHEVALIER 'A wonderfully powerful and haunting novel with a hugely gripping plot' — DEBORAH MOGGACH 'A rich evocation...

Mrs Dickens has my whole heart . . . I was enthralled' Jennie Godfrey London, 1836. Nineteen-year-old Kate Hogarth falls in love with the young journalist Charles Dickens. In the early days of their marriage, Charles is infatuated with his bride and Kate delights in her new life, the balm to her husband's irrepressible spirit. But as he finds fame...