num_pages: 383
description: The powerful evocative new novel by the critically acclaimed author of The Handfasted Wife The Woman in the Shadows presents the rise of Thomas Cromwell Tudor England's most powerful statesman through the eyes of his wife Elizabeth. When beautiful cloth merchants daughter Elizabeth Williams is widowed at the age of twenty-two she is determined to make herself a success in the business she has learned from her father. But there are those who oppose a woman making her own way in the world and soon Elizabeth realises she may have some powerful enemies  enemies who also know the truth about her late husband Security  and happiness  comes when Elizabeth is introduced to kindly ambitious merchant turned lawyer Thomas Cromwell. Their marriage is one based on mutual love and respectbut it isnt always easy being the wife of an influential headstrong man in Henry VIIIs London. The city is filled with ruthless people and strange delights  and Elizabeth realises she must adjust to the life she has chosenor risk losing everything.
language: English
title: The Woman in the Shadows
publisher: Accent Press