**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

Better educated than most men, her father arranges her marriage to warrior poet Sir Philip Sidney. “A thrilling portrait of a remarkable woman who witnessed the key events of Elizabethan England.” Frances Walsingham is the only surviving child of Queen Elizabeth’s ‘spymaster’ Sir Francis Walsingham. After Philip Sidney is killed in battle, Frances becomes Countess of Essex, and is banished from court after her husband Sir Robert Devereaux’s rebellion against the queen. Can she marry for love, if it means turning her back on her faith and all she knows?