Elizabethan England comes to life in the story of young Nicholas Cooke, befriended by one Christopher Marlowe and an actor named Will Shakespeare, as his quest for identity takes him from war in Ireland to London during the plague. A first novel.
Into the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe, Elizabeth and Essex, the horrific plagues of London and the brutal war in Ireland, strides one Nicholas Cooke, the hero of one of the most engagingly brilliant historical novels to appear in years. A memorable portrait not just of a man, but of an entire world.
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