Tread Softly

by Kate Pennington

Overview

Mary Devereux and her father, John, have been appointed to embroider a precious cloak for Walter Raleigh, ready for an invitation to Queen Elizabeth I's court. Each stitch carries Mary's dreams and longings as she gets to know the world of high society. Silently she observes gossip, ambition, dark secrets and high vanity and - on one fateful day - murder.



Now Mary is being watched - a dangerous traitor suspects she knows more than she should...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444909593
Publisher:	Hachette Children's Group
Publication date:	10/06/2011
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	677 KB
Age Range:	10 - 14 Years

About the Author

Kate Pennington is a pseudonym for a very successful, million-selling author. She has chosen to publish with a different name because her new work is a major departure from her established work to date - as she writes about favourite, and much loved, areas of history and literature 'which formed the backbone to her post-graduate studies in literature'.
Kate Pennington is a pseudonym for a very successful, million-selling author. She has chosen to publish with a different name because her new work is a major departure from her established work to date - as she writes about favourite, and much loved, areas of history and literature (which formed the backbone to her post-graduate studies in literature).

Editorial Reviews

A brilliantly realized historical novel that tells the story behind the cloak Sir Walter Raleigh famously sacrificed to spare the shoes of his Queen.

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