Terrific early reviews for Jessie Childs' God's Traitors
1 Mar 2014

“ Childs has employed her impressive research skills and storytelling verve to bring that past vividly to life”. Daily Telegraph

“This vivid, minutely researched and brilliantly original history is a much-needed look at the dark side of the Elizabethan age.” Dan Jones Sunday Times

“Jessie Childs, author of an excellent biography of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, has hit on the inspired idea of exploring them through the recusant Vaux family – a tale of spies and skulduggery, of casuistry and unshakable belief, of torture, martyrdom, and the ferocious collision and confusion of politics and religion… Childs writes in a breezy, engaging style, of a period in English history too often clogged by breathy romance or earnest sanctimony…. God’s Traitors is scholarly, absorbing, even-handed and relevant.” Ben McIntyre, The Times