Waiting For Elizabeth
by Joan Rosier-Jones
Price: $9.99 USD. 94090 words.
Published by Tangerine Publications Ltd on April 24, 2012. Fiction.
Ireland 1565.
‘Old English’ Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond, a known as “Black Tom” is waiting for his Queen, Elizabeth. She is rumoured to be the mother of one of Tom’s 12 illegitimate children. And she has promised to visit Ireland. Black Tom builds a manor house for Elizabeth at Carraigh on the River Suir, and there he waits for her. A very real picture of love and hate in Tudor Ireland.
Member Since: July 11, 2012
Joan Rosier-Jones
Biography
Joan Rosier-Jones lives in Wanganui, New Zealand, but she loves to travel, particularly to Ireland where her partner was born and raised. They came across Carraigh castle and manor house on one visit and the story of Black Tom Butler waiting for Elizabeth to visit him in Ireland haunted her. On a second visit she started research for this novel. She has long been active in the politics of being a writer and is a past National President of the New Zealand Society of Authors.
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Also by Joan Rosier-Jones
Fiction:
Cast Two Shadows
Voyagers
Canterbury Tales
Mother Tongue
Yes
Non-fiction:
Writing Your Family History
So You Want to Write
The Murder of Chow Yat