Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots by Jennifer Morag (Sandstone Press, 2021)
Non-Fiction
First of the non-fiction books is Jennifer Morag Henderson’s Daughters of the North: Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots (ISBN: 9781913207755). Mary’s marriage to the infamous Earl of Bothwell is well-known; less well-known is the story of Bothwell’s first wife, Jean Gordon. Daughter of the ‘King of the North’, Jean manages to extricate herself from her marriage to Bothwell and survive both the turbulence of Mary’s court and, as Duchess of Sutherland, the blood feuds and clan battles of the far north of Scotland.