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In an alternate-history 1605 England, Robert Cecil forces Shakespeare—called Shagspeare—to write an official history of the Gunpowder Plot. As Shag interviews conspirator Thomas Wintour and investigates priest Henry Garnet’s trial, the actors dramatize and revise the story, while Shag seeks a way to tell the truth without being caught.
In Victorian England, pickpocket Sue Trinder agrees to help a con man steal an heiress’s fortune. The scheme draws her from London’s criminal underworld into a secretive household and an asylum, where deception, desire and betrayal overturn her understanding of the people around her.
In an alternate-history 1605 England, Robert Cecil forces Shakespeare—called Shagspeare—to write an official history of the Gunpowder Plot. As Shag interviews conspirator Thomas Wintour and investigates priest Henry Garnet’s trial, the actors dramatize and revise the story, while Shag seeks a way to tell the truth without being caught.
In Victorian England, pickpocket Sue Trinder agrees to help a con man steal an heiress’s fortune. The scheme draws her from London’s criminal underworld into a secretive household and an asylum, where deception, desire and betrayal overturn her understanding of the people around her.