In Notorious, Nolan brings her trademark ability to reframe the tangled, often tragic lives of Tudor women to a lesser-known but pivotal subject. Her account of Elizabeth Barton-prophet, prisoner, and a largely uncredited voice of the English Reformation-shines new light on the inner world of a woman history has long side-lined. Nolan doesn't shy away from presenting competing motives and contradictory theories; as she rightly insists, when it comes to Henry VIII's court, the ambiguity is the history. Notorious is a timely reminder that the machinery for discrediting women has a very long paper trail, and another essential piece in the long, unfinished puzzle of Henry and Anne Boleyn

Amanda Matta, US television and social media commentator

An imaginatively compelling investigation of a remarkable Tudor life, shedding sympathetic light on a world where prophecy and divine revelation unleashed dangerous political power

Malcolm Gaskill, Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia and author of The Ruin of All Witches