Lady of Hay - Tapa dura

‘The author's storytelling talent is undeniable. Barbara Erskine can make us feel the cold, smell the filth and experience some of the fear of the power of evil men' The Times

‘With Lady of Hay, thirty years ago, Barbara Erskine created a new, bestselling genre, the timeslip novel’ Rachel Hore

‘I was mesmerised by Lady of Hay, and then by every subsequent title, without exception’ Alison Weir

‘Told with such pace and tension that I couldn’t put it down until I’d finished’ Elizabeth Chadwick

'Fascinating, absorbing, original – all such praise comes easily when describing Barbara Erskine's Lady of Hay. But perhaps the most suitable world is hypnotic' SHE

'Convincing and extremely colourful' The Mail

An iconic debut. The perfect gift for Mother’s Day.

In London, journalist Jo Clifford plans to debunk the belief in past-lives in a hard-hitting magazine piece. But her scepticism is shaken when a hypnotist forces her to relive the experiences of Matilda, Lady of Hay, a noblewoman during the reign of King John.

She learns of Matilda's unhappy marriage, her love for the handsome Richard de Clare, and the brutal death threats handed out by King John, before it becomes clear that Jo’s past and present are inevitably entwined. She realises that eight hundred years on, Matilda’s story of secret passion and unspeakable treachery is about to repeat itself...

Barbara Erskine’s iconic debut novel still delights generations of readers thirty years after its first publication.