Queen Macbeth: Darkland Tales by Val McDermid #joyce for 5 years

for 5 years

detailing the influence of her childhood in a farming family

In 2020 she was awarded the Padma Vibhushan

a nervous breakdown and suicide attempts

Queen Macbeth: Darkland Tales by Val McDermid #joyce for 5 yearsShakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions a healer, a weaver and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is no lady: she is the