The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell Groundswell Speaker 2024

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell Groundswell Speaker 2024Winter, 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.

One wrong move may result in her instant dismissal

PaperbackPublication: 23 Mar 2022

text and images from the key players are woven together to reveal not only the details behind the creation

Her name is not Nina

John Preston

Virago ISBN: 9780860681298Extent: 368 pages

But there's a price to pay for using this blood skill

Finding bullet-ridden bodies

threatening to tear it apart from the inside

a German bookbinder working in London

Controversial and compelling

religious extremism and royal collapse