Joanna Hickson

Joanna spent twenty-five years at the BBC writing and presenting for radio and television. Gripped by Shakespeare’s historical plays, Joanna originally began researching King Henry V’s ‘fair Kate’ as a schoolgirl and the story of Catherine de Valois and the birth of the Tudor dynasty went on to become her first historical novel, The Agincourt Bride. Joanna is now an internationally bestselling novelist with a legion of fans around the globe. The House of Seymour is her eighth novel. She is married with a large family and lives in Wiltshire, England.