A triumph of story-telling, backed by first-rate research -- Antonia Fraser Absorbing, exciting and relevant -- Ben MacIntyre * The Times Book of the Week * Richly packed, absorbing... A parade of extraordinary characters -- Simon Callow * Guardian * Thrilling * New Statesman * God's Traitors, with its crisp prose and punctilious scholarship, brilliantly recreates a world of heroism and holiness in Tudor England... It is little short of a triumph -- Ian Thomson * Financial Times * Beautifully written... Hollywood could not have made it up -- Professor JJ Scarisbrick Brilliant * Wall Street Journal * Truly excellent... God's Traitors crosses the divide between popular and academic history. It raises issues of some real historical importance -- Michael Questier * Spectator * This vivid, minutely researched and brilliantly original history is a much-needed look at the dark side of the Elizabethan age -- Dan Jones * Sunday Times * Excellent... An engaging history of English papists, filled with memorable episodes * The Economist * In the quality of her research and sensitive handling of issues that remain raw to this day, Jessie Childs succeeds in evoking 'the lived experience of anti-Catholicism' as few have done before... Childs's language is lively and inventive... By picturing Elizabethan recusants in all their complexity, Jessie Childs has enabled them to speak for themselves at last -- John Cooper * Literary Review * Superb and groundbreaking... It isn't possible in the space of a review to do justice to the breadth and depth of Childs' research and insight; but they illuminate the entire landscape of English life...a superlative, flawlessly written book... Childs' description of an exorcism at Lord Vaux's house in Hackney...is one of the most extraordinary things I have ever read -- Matthew Lyons, author of The Favourite