Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Widowland | 2021 | Jane Thynne | Buy |
| 2 | Queen Wallis | - | Jane Thynne | N/A |
| 3 | Queen Wallis / Queen High | 2023 | Jane Thynne | Buy |
Widowland, the first book, introduces the altered Britain of the Rose Ransom series, drawing on real Nazi ideology about women’s roles to imagine how occupied Britain might have been restructured. The title refers to settlements for older, widowed women considered unproductive under the new racial order, and Rose’s investigation into a murder there pulls her into the fault lines of the regime.
The series sits alongside other alternate history thrillers like Fatherland and The Man in the High Castle but has a distinctly female perspective on how occupation reshapes domestic and social life. Thynne’s journalism background is visible here too, in the attention to how ideology gets translated into daily routine and bureaucratic control.