A Tale of Power, Betrayal, and Legacy
Are you enthusiastic about stories that transport you to a different place in time, dance with danger, and contain a mystery?
Right of Answer tells the story of Margaret de Badlesmere, the first noblewoman to be imprisoned—illegally and along with her five young children—in the Tower of London in 1321.
Margaret was imprisoned under the control of Edward II’s Queen Isabella. Historians have portrayed Margaret as a harridan whose rashness led to her imprisonment, and they have dubbed Isabella as ‘the She-Wolf of France’.
But Right of Answer challenges those interpretations… what if Margaret and Isabella were spirited women whose flawed marriages pulled them into a trap set by King Edward?
I was inspired to write this story when I discovered that the key personalities in this drama—Margaret de Badlesmere, Baron Badlesmere, Edward II, and Queen Isabella—are my 19th great-grandparents.
Hilary Llewellyn
Hilary earned her Ph.D. degree at the University of Toronto. A transplanted Canadian, she is a professor emeritus at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Hilary has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers; Right of Answer is her first novel.