Prize for the Fire: A Novel

Lincolnshire, 1537. Amid England’s religious turmoil, fifteen—year—old Anne Askew is forced to take her dead sister’s place in an arranged marriage. The witty, well—educated gentleman’s daughter is determined to free herself from her abusive husband, harsh in—laws, and the cruel strictures of her married life. But this is the England of Henry VIII, where religion and politics are dangerously entangled. A young woman of Anne’s fierce independence, Reformist faith, uncanny command of plainspo...