A Shattered Sisterhood

is a solo artist and Grammy-nominated songwriter whose work has been performed by Kelly Clarkson, Miranda Lambert, and Kellie Pickler, among others. , originally from Wales, writes for stage, television, and radio and teaches at New York University’s Department of Dramatic Writing. which reimagines Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn as like-minded, progressive confidantes who become immersed in a ruinous game of politics and power. In this excerpt, the birth of Catherine’s sixth child has been heralded—she had been hoping for a son, as had her husband and all of England. But soon, we find her in bed, with the mood quickly turning somber.