Homecoming

'Brings into vibrant focus some lesser-known, intimate details about the young queen that make her wholly relatable today'

-- Sally McDonald * Sunday Post *

'Like Mary, Homecoming is fresh and flighty, maddening, but irresistibly unbuttoned'

-- Jessie Childs * Times *

'If anyone was able to add anything fresh to the story of Mary's life...then it would be Rosemary Goring, who has carved out an eminent role for herself as a highly respected author of books about Scottish history'

-- Ken Lussey * Undiscovered Scotland *

'Rosemary's book breathes life into this legendary Queen'

* Southern Reporter *

'Whether or not Mary Stuart emerges blameless or guilty, she can be seen for who she really was... thanks to Rosemary's painstaking research'

-- Julie Currie * East Fife Mail *

'a nicely measured book, intelligent, engaging and well-balanced'

-- Allan Massie * The Scotsman *

‘tells the story of Mary's Scottish years through the often dramatic and atmospheric locations and settings where the events that shaped her life took place’

* History Scotland Magazine *

'a fresh, richly detailed biography' 

* Scottish Field *

'Do we really need another book on Mary, Queen of Scots? Yes, because this is the most easily understood of the quagmire that Mary found herself in on her return to Scotland as its queen. Wonderfully written and fascinating for its social history of the era. I can't recommend it highly enough'

* The Watermill Bookshop, Aberfeldy *

'In this beautifully crafted and deeply researched biography, Rosemary Goring delivers a fascinating account of the twelve years Mary Stuart resided in her native Scotland, and the events that shaped her life as well as the Scottish nation'

* Waterstones Bookseller *

'This is a fascinating account of the Scottish years of a remarkable Queen. Mary’s life is vividly and dramatically portrayed here by Rosemary Goring'

-- Alexander McCall Smith * Little Brown Book Group *

'Refreshingly, Goring presents a very even-handed view of Mary, as a queen and as a woman, and the book is full of small details that bring her and her world to life' 

-- Wilson Smith * Book of the Old Edinburgh Cl