Girl King

Meg Clothier studied Classics at Cambridge, spent a year sailing a yacht from England to Alaska, then - after a few false starts - became a journalist. Her last job was working for Reuters in their Moscow bureau before coming back to London to study for a masters degree in post-soviet politics. She first read about Tamar while writing a paper on Georgia and decided not to get another proper job but to write a novel instead. She has visited Georgia several times, most recently on honeymoon. She likes mountains, boats, learning languages and adventure stories.

"Compelling, exotic and fast-paced: a wonderful story of love and death that transports you into a forgotten world" Vanora Bennett "It is as if Henry VIII, Mary and Elizabeth were combined into one character, and unleashed for the first time: so much more fun than another Boleyn book" Independent "Speedy, gripping, historical fiction" Marie Claire "Clothier has a good story, a vigorous style and well-turned phrase" Times Literary Supplement