When a wherryman hauls the body of a young girl out of the River Thames early one morning in June 1591, he takes her to the renowned medical practitioner and horoscope caster Dr Simon Forman at his home on the Bankside. To his surprise, Forman recogn...
This historical thriller, whose protagonist is inspired by a real 16th-century doctor named Simon Furman, is full of period detail that is reflective of the political intrigues of the times. On May Day 1592, after a night of revelry and a day tending...