Normal Women

Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records to find highway women, beggars and shepherdesses, through newspapers and diaries to find murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits.

The ‘normal women’ you will meet in her pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved.

They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency and built ships, corn mills and houses as part of their everyday lives

They committed crimes, or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things and rioted.

A lot. 

They built our society to be as diverse and varied as the women themselves. They are there in the archives – if you look – and they made our history.

Please note this copy has light scuffs on the edges of the covers

ISBN: 9780008601690

Size: Paperback, 688 pages

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published:2023