Sutton Place

The year is 1051. England is in turmoil.

The beautiful and angry Queen Edith curses the ground her husband, Edward the Confessor, hunts on and all its future owners.

Five centuries later, Richard Weston, a shrewd politician and rising member of Henry VIII’s court, is awarded the land and builds a magnificent manor house. But his family is living in the shadow of the curse and must soon pay its price. For his son and heir, Francis Weston, will be executed for a crime he did not commit — adultery with Anne Boleyn.

As both the vivacious Francis and the mysterious Anne unwittingly sow the seeds of their own destruction, Dr Zachary, the celebrated court astrologer and the Duke of Norfolk’s illegitimate son, tries to contend with dark forces beyond even his control.

But Sutton Place has not finished yet and centuries later Lord Northcliffe, a press baron, and Paul Getty, an oil tycoon, will also have to face the darkness…

The first novel of Deryn Lake’s haunting trilogy, Sutton Place, masterfully blends fact and fiction as it traces the tortured destinies of all those caught up in the curse.