Summary
Maggie O'Farrell: Marriage Portrait
Winter 1561. Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara, goes with her husband Alfonso on an unexpected visit to a country villa. As they sit down to dinner, it dawns on Lucrezia that her husband brought her here with sinister intentions. He wants to kill her. Lucrezia is sixteen years old and until then she led a sheltered life locked inside the largest Florentine palace. There, in that distant villa, she is completely at the mercy of her husband and his increasingly erratic mood. A marriage portrait is an unforgettable, convincing, tense and beautifully written novel about the life of a young woman whose too close proximity to power puts her in mortal danger.
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