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The Marriage Portrait - the instant Sunday Times bestseller, now a Reese's Bookclub December Pick (Hardcover)
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The Marriage Portrait - the instant Sunday Times bestseller, now a Reese's Bookclub December Pick (Hardcover)
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A Reese's Bookclub December Pick An Instant Sunday Times, New York
Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022) A Guardian and
LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022) 'Every bit as evocative and
spellbinding as Hamnet. O'Farrell, thank God, just seems to be
getting better and better' i newspaper 'Her narrative enchantment
will wrest suspense and surprise out of a death foretold' Financial
Times 'Ingenious, inventive, humane, wry, truthful . . . better
than her last novel' Scotsman 'Finely written and vividly imagined'
Guardian 'In O'Farrell's hands, historical detail comes alive'
Spectator Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on
an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As
they sit down to dinner it occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso has a
sinister purpose in bringing her here. He intends to kill her.
Lucrezia is sixteen years old, and has led a sheltered life locked
away inside Florence's grandest palazzo. Here, in this remote
villa, she is entirely at the mercy of her increasingly erratic
husband. What is Lucrezia to do with this sudden knowledge? What
chance does she have against Alfonso, ruler of a province, and a
trained soldier? How can she ensure her survival. The Marriage
Portrait is an unforgettable reimagining of the life of a young
woman whose proximity to power places her in mortal danger.
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