Geoffrey Trease

A story of secret meetings, police oppression and social upheaval in which an office worker and an aristocratic young lady become unlikely friends as they join the struggle for women’s right to vote.

Peter Brownrigg finds himself on the wrong side of the law - and on the run. As he makes his way to London he meets Kit, another runaway, and with luck on their side they find jobs as apprentices to William Shakespeare.

But then a chance discovery endangers their lives once more...

An action-packed spy thriller set in Elizabethan times, Cue for Treason is a masterpiece of historical fiction, widely considered to be a modern classic.