A House of Women — Eric Malpass

Now retired from the London theatre, Shakespeare returns to Stratford to live with his wife and children. But coming home to a house of women where routines have long been established is no easy task: his daughters merely find their famous father an unwanted intrusion. This moving story of Shakespeare's latter years in Stratford centres on the adjustments the family has to make, and explores Will's relationship with his two daughters and the men they decide to marry. This concluding novel in Eric Malpass' masterful trilogy on Shakespeare's life is as memorable as Sweet Will and The Cleopatra Boy.