‘Intrigue, tension, memorable characters and shipboard life depicted in all its reeking authenticity add up to a truly gripping read'
- Guardian
Leonora Nattrass studied eighteenth-century literature and politics, and spent ten years lecturing in English and publishing works on William Cobbett. She lives in Cornwall, in a seventeenth-century house with seventeenth-century draughts, writing historical fiction and spinning the fleeces of her Ryeland sheep into yarn. Her first novel, Black Drop, was published in 2021 and was selected as one of the best historical novels of the year by the Sunday Times.
‘Intrigue, tension, memorable characters and shipboard life depicted in all its reeking authenticity add up to a truly gripping read'
- Guardian