‘If we get the King, Cromwell gets the glory,’ George said. ‘If we fail, we’re mutineers and hanged… Cromwell’s Blessing!’
‘Peter Ransley’s Cromwell’s Blessing’ gains its strength from its complex, believable protagonist Tom Neave.... who becomes the focus for an intelligent and imaginative tale of a pivitol year in English history’ - Sunday Times
Book two of the Tom Neave Trilogy
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I want you to read this book not because I’ve written it, nor because I’ll get a few pennies out if it, nor because it’s a page-turning thriller, but because I passionately believe you’ll be as surprised and moved as I was by what you find within the covers.
Surprised by what it reveals about the origins of an increasingly muddled, inadequate and irrelevant Parliament. About how the King lost his head and monarchy became a figurehead. About nine heady months in 1647 when it all might have been very different.
Moved by the story of how the people came to speak – how the war educated them, how pamphlets, the Internet of the day, brought them together to take on Parliament and make the first demands for a constitution and the vote.
For decades dull historians have buried the civil war. They don’t believe in narrative history. Here’s the story of the most exciting year of it, told by someone who lived through it. It’s fiction – but the real events, carefully researched, are the most astonishing part of it.
Cromwell’s Blessing is the second part of a trilogy, but it can be read as a story on its own. Buy it now from Waterstone’s or Amazon at £8.99. And if you like it as much as I enjoyed writing it, then e mail a review to Waterstone’s and Amazon, and get more people to resurrect this most exciting period of our history.
Like Ken Follet and Robert Harris you really get the feel of living in a world alien to your own. The book brought alive the stench of Smithfield market, the chaos and brutality of the battlefield, while the female characters really do enrich the novel ..." (Kemper Boyd Amazon reader)
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‘Tom’s search for his own identity is intimately connected with the seismic events tearing England apart in the 1640s. Ransley has a talent for melding dramatic historical detail with a strong story that could well give C.J. Sansom a run for his money.’ (Spectator)
5* Amazon Reviews
‘With its inclusion of real life people this is a real page turner’
– N. D Saker
‘The author writes so vividly … I highly recommend it to readers of all ages. I have given it to my 12 year old nephew who devoured it, and to my aunt who is a historical fiction fanatic in her 60s … both loved it.’
– avidreader
‘Gives the insider’s view of historical events … The female characters really do enrich the novel – quiet voices shouting the loudest.’
– kemperboyd
