Tattercoats lives with her cold grandfather and has just two friends: a servant, Malkin, and a gooseherd, Pug. When an invitation arrives to a ball at the queen’s court, Tattercoats is desperate to go-how can Malkin and Pug help her get there?

First published in 1998, Cold Iron is an enticing novel of fantasy and magic inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Cinderella-like fairytale ‘Tattercoats’, set in Elizabethan England.