Description
Alan Gold’s meticulously researched and page-turning novel, The Pretender’s Lady, opens history’s pages on a peerless woman who helped change the course of history and whose legend lives on in Scotland today – Flora MacDonald.
She was the most famous Scotswoman of her day, single-handedly saving Bonnie Prince Charlie. This is her fictionalized life story – her relations with the prince, her flight to America, Ben Franklin’s influence, and her return to Britain to lobby for peace.
But what’s hidden from history, revealed now for the first time in this dazzling new work of fiction, is the product of Flora and Charlie’s love: a beautiful and talented boy raised on an American farm. But only she knows his true heritage and his claim to the world’s greatest throne. And only Ben Franklin understands how to use this naïve boy to change the history of America.
Karyl Carlson –
I don’t know how much of this story is historically accurate, but it is an interesting take on a true moment in history.”
historyandwomen.com –
“Accurate, lush, and highly compelling. A definite recommendation!”
Finlay MacDonald –
“Alan Gold’s wonderfully-researched and immensely-readable book, The Pretender’s Lady, puts my ancestor, Flora, right back where she belongs–as one of the most important figures in Scottish history.”
Bryce Courtenay, author of The Power of One –
“Flora MacDonald is a heroine for all ages… lusty, brave, scandalous, and, until Gold’s novel, forgotten.”