This book was longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It was awarded a Sunday Times Book of the Year, a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year, a Times Book of the Year, and, an Observer Book of the Year. A woman awakes in a prison cell. She has been on the run but the authorities have tracked her down and taken her to the Tower of London - where she is interrogated about the Gunpowder Plot. The woman is Anne Vaux - one of the ardent, brave and exasperating members of the aristocratic Vauxes of Harrowden Hall. Through the eyes of this remarkable family, award-winning author Jessie...