Rosanna Pike with Franny Moyle: Writing Historical Fiction

In A Little Trickerie, Rosanna Pike brings to life the extraordinary true story of a woman in early Tudor England who claimed to be an angel and attracted an entire community of believers. Through Tibb Ingleby‘s audacious hoax, Pike reveals a world far beyond royal courts - the overlooked lives, ambitions and ingenuity of early Tudor women.

As Tibb sets out to exploit the credulity of Tudor England, Pike turns history’s attention to ordinary people and to the women too often left at its margins. The result is history with an unexpected twist: A Little Trickerie won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.

Join Rosanna in conversation with acclaimed cultural non-fiction writer Franny Moyle, as they explore the real history behind the novel, the forgotten women of the period and the art of bringing the past vividly to life.