Amenable Women

Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new found freedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had begun . A reference to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII s fourth wife who he rejected for being ugly, captures Flora s imagination and she begins to delve deeper into the life of this neglected historical figure. Meanwhile, in the Louvre, Holbein s portrait of Anne of Cleves senses the tug of a connection and she begins to tell the real story of the injustices she suffered and just how she survived her marriage...