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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...
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Amenable Women, Mavis Cheek
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
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- Titel
- Amenable Women
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Mavis Cheek
- Verlag
- Faber
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0571239536
- ISBN13
- 9780571239535
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Gegenwartsliteratur, Britische Literatur, Tudors
- Bewertung
- 3,85 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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...