Dimensions
127 x 203 x 19mm
Being a Known True Story Compiled into a Tragedy.
'I have made my life an arrow, and His heart is my home. I have made my heart a blade, and His heart is my sheath . . .'
Their life is a desperate struggle for survival: wise-woman Nettle, Mad Helga, little Gillyflower, the girl they took in seven long years ago. They live by selling potions, begging for food, sometimes robbing the dead on the battlefields that scar the Scottish hills every year.
But Gilly remembers a happier life. She has dedicated her very being to destroying the man who destroyed that happiness, even though she has no way to reach him. Until the day he saves her life. Now Gilly knows where he is, who he is. Disguised as a poor servant boy, she insinuates herself into his life, subtly begins to shape it. Gilly watches his power grow, watches his wife urge him to ever-greater ambition.
Even as Macbeth becomes King of Scotland, Gilly brings her revenge to its triumphant conclusion.
