MET- Virgin Trial

Kate Hennig continues her Queenmaker series by cleverly exploring victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary ability of girls becoming women as she reimagines a scandalous and little-known story of Elizabeth the First before she was Queen.

Fifteen-year-old Bess has no idea when she heads to London to see her uncle Ted that she is about to find herself at the heart of a scandal involving sexual impropriety; her stepfather, Thom; and an attempted overthrow of the government. What does all this have to do with her? How adroitly can Bess maneuver through a series of interviews to avoid being swept up in the peril that might ensue? And will she be able to spin the facts to create a myth based on her own innocence?