STOP PRESS...SUE ALLAN'S NEW WORLD TRILOGY WAS PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT BUSH AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN SEPTEMBER 2008...........           

'Like the fiction of films or costumed re-enactments, Sue Allan's historical novel takes us beyond court records and official memoirs to conversations and emotions whose reality went unrecorded. Cleverly noticing the Pilgrim Fathers least studied by historians, Sue invents a tale of adventure and romance that lets us imagine the life of a maidservant who chose to join the Mayflower Pilgrims. Well-researched and evocative portrayals of Gainsborough Old Hall and the Pilgrim Country of Nottinghamshire will make you want to visit the home of her heroine Dorothy yourself.'
---- Jeremy Bangs, Director, Leiden American Pilgrim Museum

The Mayflower Maid

This heroic story of love and adventure is set against the back drop of the turbulent times of the USA's origins. It was a period  of sustained persecution for a group of people known in English History as 'the 'Separatists' and to the Americans as The Pilgrim Fathers.

This book is written by established English author, Sue Allan, in association with American writer, Roger Vorhauer. For the very first time, here is a fully rounded, bi-national, ‘un-sanitized’ epic account of true events leading up to the Mayflower’s monumentally important voyage. This saga is at last faithfully retold in a way that makes history come to life, through the  fictionalization of the action-packed life and  love of one of it’s more humble  passengers, Dorothy ~ the Mayflower Maid.   

 

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Historical locations of interest  related to The Pilgrim Fathers in Britain that appear in this novel include - Gainsborough Old Hall, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Boston Guild Hall, Boston, Lincolnshire, Scrooby Manor, Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. The authors of this site wish to acknowledge  the assistance given to them  by the staff of both Gainsborough Old Hall and The Guild Hall, Boston , The Friends Of Gainsborough Old Hall , Lincolnshire County Council , Richard Copley -Baines of The Pilgrim Heritage Trust  and Dr. Jeremy Bangs during our research.

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Another Review at MyShelf.Com

Restoration Lady

This is the conclusion to the acclaimed trilogy which has so far numbered Mayflower Maid (amazon US || UK) and Jamestown Woman (amazon US || UK). Bessie has already had enough adventures (and misadventures) to fill several lifetimes in the New World and during the Civil War; now she must survive the rigors of Cromwell’s reign and the triumphant return of the monarchy, as well as the woes of plague and fire.

It is good to get a novel about the 17th century, which is surely the least written about century in the last thousand years. So much happened then too — and most of it gets told in these three books.  They aren’t large books either, but I invariably prefer quality to quantity and there is certainly true quality here as well as a quantity of adventures, which is the best of both for a novel.  Bessie tells the story, and she comes over very much as a woman of her time, getting under the skin of what it must have been like to have lived through such a significant period.  The other people in the book and their exploits have that all-important ring of authenticity about them too, making this very much a realistic book.   More from this author soon please — being able to spin the dross of history into the gold of story is not a common talent despite the wealth of historical fiction available.