Shakespeare's sistersDiscover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard and read in the time of Shakespeare. In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid 16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men. Some readers may

Jamie Roberts had big dreams

drives their car off the road and kills her

Anna Wahlenberg and others

or the nature of natural things

Three years before he died

witty and full of wonder

Wales has a rich and varied flora of about 1200 native and anciently introduced flowering plants

local photographers

rebellion against her rule is raging

readers will learn how to make Keira Grundy's award-winning Fruity Llama

greenhouse geraniums

As her own family's secrets were revealed