Comes with a recommendation from Hilary Mantel: "The Ravenmaster's Boy is a dark but charming Tudor tale - history with a twist. The events of May 1536 - the days of the fall of the Boleyn regime - are still cloudy and mysterious, and it is possible that the birds of the air know as much as the rest of us about what really happened and why."Hilary Mantelauthor of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.

The tense political atmosphere of 1536 is so skillfully recreated in this story that it has that elusive page-turning quality, Henriette Gyland, Historical Novel Review; A skillfully imagined story of intrigue and magic. Figures familiar from history lessons are made vivid, breathing characters in this exciting story and, though we know how it ends for Anne, readers will be moved and saddened viewing events through Kit's eyes. This is proof of historical fiction's power to grip and entertain, Books for Keeps; The atmosphere in the Tower's grim precincts is thrillingly evoked, and Anne and her nemesis, Cromwell, are sensitively and shrewdly portrayed, Suzi Feay, Financial Times; Mary Hoffman's new novel, The Ravenmaster's Boy ... is such a perfect story that you barely notice you are reading ... It is inspiring to learn more about a famous part of history while also being treated to an exciting historical thriller, Ann Giles, The Bookwitch; A taste of history, a dash of magic and a delicate flick of gore, Lucille Turner, Bookmunch; A vibrant evocation of a familiar period of history. The School Librarian Summer 2017.

Mary Hoffman has written well over a hundred books including the internationally successful Stravaganza sequence, published in 30 languages. Her YA novels have been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Costa Children's Book Awards; The Falconer's Knot also won the Prix Polar Jeunesse in its French translation, Crime Rouge.Mary runs the popular History Girls blog at http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com