Tamzin Merchant: The actress who quite literally followed her dreams

From Pride & Prejudice to The Tudors to children’s author, Tamzin Merchant speaks on her career reinvention

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Author Tamzin Merchant has lived many lives.

You may know her as Georgiana Darcy, opposite Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen in Pride & Prejudice, or as Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s ill-fated fifth wife in The Tudors. In recent years she’s starred in prestige TV series including Salem and Carnival Row. But the latest role for this chameleon — as the author of children’s books The Hatmakers and now The Mapmakers — hit her like a bolt out of the blue.