{"id":7611,"date":"2025-02-23T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=7611"},"modified":"2025-03-20T18:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:50:50","slug":"2025-sunday-10-00am-annie-garthwaite","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=7611","title":{"rendered":"2025 Sunday – 10.00am Annie Garthwaite"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The King’s Mother<\/span><\/p>

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Date:\u00a0 Sunday 8th June 2025<\/strong><\/p>

Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall<\/strong><\/p>

Time:\u00a0 10.00-10.45am<\/strong><\/p>

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Annie Garthwaite\u2019s debut novel Cecily<\/em> won immediate acclaim and is a firm Monty Lit Fest favourite. So, we\u2019re delighted to welcome Annie to this year\u2019s Festival to celebrate the paperback publication of her sequel, The King\u2019s Mother<\/em>.<\/p>

It\u2019s 1461.\u00a0<\/strong>Through blood and battle, Cecily de Neville\u2019s son Edward has gained England\u2019s throne and she stands at his shoulder, first to claim the title The King\u2019s Mother. But to win a throne is not to keep it. As brother betrays brother, and trusted cousins turn treacherous, other mothers rise up to fight for other sons. For there can be only one King, and only one King\u2019s Mother.<\/p>

Hear from Annie as she takes us from the Wars of the Roses to the dawn of the Tudor age with a story of mothers and sons; of maternal ferocity and female ambition – of all they can build and all they can destroy.<\/p>

Annie Garthwaite <\/strong>grew up in a working-class community in the northeast of England and studied at the University of Wales before embarking on an international business career. In 2017 she studied for an MA in Creative Writing at Warwick University where she wrote her debut novel,\u00a0Cecily<\/em>, <\/em>published by Penguin in 2021. It was named a ‘top pick’ by The Times<\/em> and Sunday Time<\/em>s, a ‘Best Book of 2021’ by independent bookshops and Waterstones, and has recently been optioned for TV. Annie’s second novel,\u00a0The King’s Mother<\/em>, was published in 2024 and immediately named \u2018Book of the Month\u2019 by The Times<\/em>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 The King’s Mother with Annie Garthwaite Date:\u00a0 Sunday 8th June 2025 Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall Time:\u00a0 10.00-10.45am Tickets:\u00a0 \u00a39.00 Annie Garthwaite\u2019s debut novel Cecily won immediate acclaim and is a firm Monty Lit Fest favourite. So, we\u2019re delighted to welcome Annie to this year\u2019s Festival to celebrate the paperback publication of her sequel, The …<\/p>\n

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