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 her imagination as she begins to delve deeper into the life of this neglected figure. Meanwhile, in the Louvre, Holbein's portrait of Anne of Cleves senses the tug of a connection and she begins to tell the story of the injustices she suffered and just how she survived her marriage...
- ISBN13 9780571238941
- Publish Date 3 April 2008
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 20 August 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English