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LADY OF LINCOLN longlisted for the Chaucer Award!
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LADY OF LINCOLN longlisted for the Chaucer Award!

LADY OF LINCOLN has been longlisted for the 2025 Chaucer Award for early historical fiction!

This award ‘recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction’, celebrating stories that transport readers deep into the past, and I’m thrilled that the amazing Nicola de la Haye’s story is being recognised amongst other great novels.

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She Wasn’t Supposed to Matter…

She didn’t set out to defy anyone. She didn’t burn with ambition, or plot her way to power. She was young. She wanted love. She was raised to trust men to handle the weight of responsibility. And yet, by the time her story was done, she’d held command of one of England’s greatest castles, faced down rebellions, navigated the treachery and ambition of the marriage market, and made choices that shaped the future of a kingdom.

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