England in 1537
Henry VIII is King, but Thomas Cromwell is the man who makes the kingdom work.
William Paget, born into poverty as the son of a common labourer, is given one chance to rise from the slums.
Paget was the brightest boy in his small London school, rewarded at the age of seven with a scholarship to the great St Paul’s School. Ignoring the baiting, bullying and beatings he gets from his wealthy, supposedly noble classmates, Paget seizes that chance. Through his wit, charm and shrewd judgement, he rises to the very top at Henry’s court as chief adviser to a King who is becoming daily more fickle, and who has already destroyed not one but two commoners who he had previously raised up to this supreme position of authority.
Walk with us down the corridors of power as Paget negotiates the world of the court, trying always to do the best he can for King and country but above all fighting to save his own life and the future of his beloved wife and young family.
The Murdering of Crows is the first part of a trilogy that will allow you to truly live in Tudor times and understand the people who endured the bear pit that was the Tudor court. This novel is no fiction. The resemblance to actual persons and actual events is very deliberate. All the characters you will read of are real, as are the events.
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