The Marriage Portrait
- Publisher : Hachette India
- Publishing year : August 2022
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9781472223852
- Imprint : Tinder Press
- Age Group : Young Adult
- Language : English
'Someone swore that, as a little girl, he once saw you touch a tiger. And that the tiger didn't harm you, it let you str ...
'Someone swore that, as a little girl, he once saw you touch a tiger. And that the tiger didn't harm you, it let you stroke it. It was always said that you had charmed the beast.'
The breathtaking new novel from the author of Hamnet, the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller (2021) and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, The Marriage Portraitis a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in all its beauty and brutality.
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.
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