An imaginative, historical novel for fans ofbook Hamnet and The Shakespeare Stealer. Edmund was the youngest of four brothers. In the year 1595 he was just fifteen. His oldest brother was thirty-one and his name was William Shakespeare. Edmund chooses to follow his brother to London to become a boy actor and make his fortune in a city full of opportunity and danger. He learns to dress as a girl and speak memorised lines. He is ready to do anything. An exciting novel that imagines the life of Shakespeare's youngest brother during the Elizabethan period when the London playhouse was booming. The secrets of his playwright sibling are discovered by Edmund as he became immersed in the life of boy actors, cross-dressing, teenage sexuality and spies.
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