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Peppered with advice, remedies and recipes, and framed by the English Civil War, Lucy Moore brilliantly brings to life Lady Ann Fanshawe´s setbacks and successes.

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´Fascinating... A vivid account´ - Philippa Gregory, The Times

In the mid-seventeenth century, England was divided by Civil War, but inside the home domestic life continued as it always had done. Lady Ann Fanshawe´s ´receipt book´ was a treasured and entirely feminine response to the upheavals of war, which left few doctors to be found. And so Ann´s morocco-bound book full of scraps of ink-stained paper contained everything from lifesaving remedies to recipes for hot chocolate.

Using Ann´s receipt book and the memoirs she wrote for her surviving son, Lucy Moore follows her through this turbulent time as she leaves home, marries, bears - and buries - children and seeks to hold her family together. Lady Fanshawe´s Receipt Book brilliantly illuminates the life and times of an English woman´s Civil War.

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Moore, Lucy
Lucy Moore was born in 1970 and educated in Britain and the US before reading history at Edinburgh. Voted one of the ´top twenty young writers in Britain´ by the Independent on Sunday in 2001, her books include the bestselling Maharanis: The Lives & Times of Three Generations of Indian Princesses (Viking, 2004) and the acclaimed Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France (HarperCollins, 2006). Anything Goes is published by Atlantic in 2008.

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