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One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023?A lasting work of social history THE TIMESA genuinely new history of our nation DAN JONESThis celebration of women is a triumph of popular history SPECTATOR'Philippa Gregory uses all h...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER?`A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES`A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES`This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATORFROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE'S WORKDid you know...

Normal Women is a radical reframing of our nation’s story, told not with the rise and fall of kings and the occasional queen, but through social and cultural transition, showing the agency, persistence and effectiveness of women in society – from 1066 to modern times. Did women do nothing to shap...