Nicola Cornick on the mysterious death of Tudor noblewoman Amy Robsart

“I don’t think we can ever get away from Amy’s end, the sadness of her death, and the fact that the mystery will probably never be solved. But I hope that in my book I’ve placed more emphasis on what happened before that and on Amy in her own right. Although she is often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Dudley, Amy deserves to be more than a woman in the footnotes.”