Queen of the Mist

School teacher. Widow. Legend.

Meet the courageous Mrs Annie Edson Taylor. The bravest woman you’ve never heard of and the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel - over a decade before any male daredevil had the balls to do the same!

From the author of the bestselling Heather’s Picks title Mrs Van Gogh, comes a gripping new historical novel inspired by a true story.

Caroline Cauchi also writes as Caroline Smailes and her acclaimed novel, The Drowning of Arthur Braxton was adapted into a film starring James Tarpey and Johnny Vegas. It won Best UK Feature 2021 at Raindance film festival. Matt Haig called the novel, ’magical, weird, wonderful’.

Caroline worked as a lecturer for several years before turning her hand to fiction. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and children.