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Lucy Jago

Biography

Lucy Jago

Lucy Jago is an award-winning writer of fiction and nonfiction and Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund. Her first book, THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, won the National Biography prize and has been translated into eight languages. She was awarded a Double First Class Honours Degree from King's College, University of Cambridge, and a master's degree from the Courtauld Institute, London. She lives in Somerset.

Lucy Jago

Books by Lucy Jago

A Net for Small Fishes
by Lucy Jago - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

When Frances Howard, the beautiful but unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex, meets the talented Anne Turner, the two strike up an unlikely yet powerful friendship. Frances makes Anne her confidante, sweeping her into a glamorous and extravagant world, riven with bitter rivalry. As the women grow closer, each hopes to change her circumstances. Frances is trapped in a miserable marriage while loving another, and newly widowed Anne struggles to keep herself and her six children alive as she waits for a promised proposal. A desperate plan to change their fortunes is hatched. But navigating the Jacobean court is a dangerous game, and one misstep could cost them everything.