13th June 2019
A profile with Publisher's Weekly, by Suzanne Fox
'Though she’s been publishing fiction since 1987, Philippa Gregory is best known for the series of 15 historical novels she introduced in 2001 chronicling the lives of key women—Anne Boleyn, Katherine of Aragon, and Jane Grey among them—in Britain’s Plantagenet and Tudor courts. With Tidelands, appearing in August from Atria, she explores a different terrain.
Fans who know Gregory through bestsellers such as The Other Boleyn Girl won’t find this territory entirely unfamiliar. Like her fictionalized biographies, Tidelands is shaped by a reverence for British history and a commitment to chronicling the nature and impact of women’s lives. Rather than anchoring this story in the life of a historical figure, however, the author used a wholly fictional protagonist this time around.'
Read the full article at Publisher's Weekly: Philippa Gregory's New Novel Heads South