Secret alchemy. Emma Darwin. 2008.

The story of the Princes in the Tower has been one of the most fascinating - and most brutal - murder mysteries in history for more than five hundred years.

Emma Darwin has recreated the terrible, exhilarating world of the two youngest victims of the War of the Roses, the power struggles that lay behind their birth, the danger into which they fell, the profoundly moving days before their imprisonment and the ultimate betrayal of their innocence.

In A Secret Alchemy three voices speak: that of Elizabeth Woodville, the beautiful widow of King Edward IV; her brother Anthony, surrogate father to the doomed Prince Edward and his brother; and present-day historian Una Pryor. Herself brought up amid family secrets, Una’s experience of tragedy and lost love help her unlock the story of the princes’ deaths.