'C. J. Sansom's books are arguably the best Tudor novels going' - The Sunday Times
Lamentation is the sixth breathtaking historical novel in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling
Shardlake series perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory. England 1546.
King Henry VIII is dying. Meanwhile his Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a
final and decisive power struggle to control the government of Henry's successor
eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London the Catholic party focus
their attack on Henry's sixth wife Matthew Shardlake's old mentor Queen Catherine Parr and
Shardlake is unexpectedly summoned to Whitehall Palace. For the Queen has a secret. She has
written a confessional book Lamentation of a Sinner so radically Protestant that if it came
to the King's attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. When the
book inexplicably vanishes and a single page is found clutched in the hand of a murdered
printer Shardlake must help the desperate Queen. His loyalty will drive him into a swirl of
intrigue inside the palace where Catholic enemies and Protestant friends can be equally
dangerous and the political opportunists who will follow the wind wherever it blows more
dangerous than either . . . Lamentation is the sixth novel in C. J. Sansom's gripping
historical series. Continue the series with book seven Tombland .
