A Net for Small Fishes

Endorsements

“A Net for Small Fishes brings adds a new and modern insight to a famous historical intrigue. The intricate complexities of the Jacobean court are beautifully told but it is the relationship between these two women, Frances Howard, Countess of Essex and Mistress Anne Turner as they play the cards life has dealt them that is both riveting and contemporary.”
Alex Shulman
  • 'Brilliantly evoked and brilliantly sustained'

    Andrew Miller
    Winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
  • 'The research, the structure, the characters, the voice with which to carry so much narrative and the unfolding of a complex story at the right pace.'

    Sarah Dunant
    Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize, shortlist
  • 'Historical fiction at its scintillating best'

    Susan Elderkin
    Betty Trask Award, winner
  • 'The Thelma and Louise of the seventeenth century'

    Laurence Norfolk
    Somerset Maugham Award, winner
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Lucy Jago's new novel A Net for Small Fishes was released in the UK on 4th February 2021 and in the USA on 16th November 2021.

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Beneath the dread I feel a core of heat: it is joy at the actions we took, the chaos we created, the possibilities we saw, the lives we led; it is love.

How stupid we are; not just us women, but all people. We think we act with all nobility when in truth we run in circles too low to the ground to see which path leads us to Heaven and which to Hell.

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Lucy Jago's new book A Net for Small Fishes was released in the UK on 4th February and in the USA on 16th November 2021.
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