Bar tender, wine expert, and journalist as well as a New Yorker, Rosie Schaap finds herself drawn to the Belfast area of Northern Ireland after both her mother and husband die. Grieving, mourning, and searching for both peace and a new life, she moves to the small village of Glenarm, a seaside oasis in which she makes new friends and finds love and acceptance.
While a good deal is known about the wives of Henry VIII, much of the information about the women who surrounded them at court has been lost. Destroyed or just never recorded, the stories of the ladies-in-waiting, chambermaids, and others are definitely part of history. Nicola Clark has produced a masterful investigation of these women. With a lengthy bibliography of resources, including both print and online, Clark has pieced together details and woven a fascinating tapestry of the Tudor years in England.
