The Marriage Portrait

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<p><b>Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023</b><br><b>A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022)</b><br><b>An Instant <i>Sunday Times</i>, <i>New York Times </i>and <i>Irish Times </i>Bestseller (August 2022)</b><br><b>A <i>Guardian </i>and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022)</b></p><p><b>'Every bit as evocative and spellbinding as <i>Hamnet</i>. O'Farrell, thank God, just seems to be getting better and better' <i>i newspaper</i></b></p><p><b>'Her narrative enchantment will wrest suspense and surprise out of a death foretold' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><b><br>'Ingenious, inventive, humane, wry, truthful . . . better than her last novel' <i>Scotsman</i></b><br><b><br>'Finely written and vividly imagined' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><b><br>'In O'Farrell's hands, historical detail comes alive' <i>Spectator</i></b><br>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.<br>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><i>The Marriage Portrait</i> is an unforgettable reimagining of the life of a young woman whose proximity to power places her in mortal danger.</p>

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EAN

9781472223883

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

196 x 129 x 38 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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