Helen Lewis (3)

Writing under her maiden name, Helen Lewis began writing novels after retiring from a career in education. She has previously published two novels of a trilogy set in Victorian England, but she has always been drawn to the fifteenth century. She has a PhD from Birmingham University; her thesis: Warwick the Kingmaker in Shakespeare's 'Henry VI'. Later she wrote a quartet of novels on Warwick's life - Lodestar - and it was while researching them that she came across the lively character Sir Thomas Malory.