The Pretender by Jo Harkin is a historical fiction novel that reimagines the true story of Lambert Simnel, a young boy used as a pawn in the 15th-century Yorkist rebellion against King Henry VII. The story begins in 1480 with ten-year-old John Collan, a peasant boy living in a remote village. His life is upended by a mysterious stranger who claims he is actually Edward Plantagenet, the 17th Earl of Warwick and rightful heir to the English throne.
A sharply ambitious, brilliantly imagined and hugely entertaining story of intrigue, deceit, revenge and ambition.
1483.
The English throne is in peril.
Peasant boy and pretender John Collan is faced with two options.
a) Become king
b) Die trying
What could possibly go wrong?
Seething with revenge and machination, sparkling with wit and humanity, and roaring with adventure and bravado, The Pretender is the captivating true story of a young man tossed into the chaos of history as it happens.
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