Lady Macbeth has a bad reputation - plotting, cunning and murderous. Is there more to her than Shakespeare’s famous anti-heroine who is filled with ambition, guilt, and lives with the consequences of unchecked ambition? Joel H Morris, author of All Of Our Yesterdays (2024), delves into the historical fiction life of Gruoch, the widow of Macbeth’s cousin, known to us as Lady Macbeth. All Of Our Yesterdays takes the reader through the early life of “the Lady” beginning with a marriage at age 15 to the abusive Mormaer of Mormay. She births a son who she tries to protect, sees the murder of her husband, then a new marriage to the murderer all while trying to maneuver herself safely in a man’s world in order to survive and to become Lady Macbeth.
Other read-a-likes: Hamnet (2020) by Maggie O'Farrell and Macbeth (2018) by Jo Nesbo