Divination and prophecy are believed, alongside the Gospels, and Nostradamus's predictions are part of the cultural landscape at court. It's a time and a place that's ripe for conflict: riven by religious disputes, presided over by the sinister and dazzling Catherine de' Medici, and with huge and growing divisions between rich and poor.
This novel is set in France in the 16th century. She's careful to emphasise that the past was about people that feelings and emotions and problems don't change much with the centuries, even though the ways her characters cope with what's thrown at them are always just right for the period they inhabit. Theresa Breslin is a past winner of the Carnegie medal (for Whispers in the Graveyard ) and has written all kinds of books for almost every age group, but there's no doubt that her real love is for history.
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