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 The Sixth Wife - Suzannah Dunn
Newest Review: ... her characters were in a novel set in modern times, I would say the characterisation was excellent. However, I think that ... more  ... the Tudor perspective of events is partially lost by making the characters too modern in their thinking. Although it is good that the characters are shown to us with a combination of strengths and weaknesses, the author fails to show the Tudor culture as being as significantly different from ours as I believe it should be.
*** The Plot ***
This book is about the life of Catherine Parr (the sixth wife of Henry VIII), after the king's death.
There are some references to her previous life, so that reader...more |
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The Sixth Wife - Suzannah Dunn: After Henry (688 words)
by - written on 04/07/08 (Very useful, 609 readings)
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*** The Author *** Sazannah Dunn had seven contemporary novels published before trying her hand at historical fiction. I haven't read any of her previous books. This is her second Tudor novel. The first was about Anne Boleyn called The Queen of Subtleties. Her third Tudor novel, The Queen's Sorrow, about "Bloody" Mary is due out in hardback in July. She hasn't researched back to the original Tudor sources, but seems to have enjoyed reading the studies of others and visiting locations relevant to the time such as Hever and Sudeley Castles. Hever was the Boleyn family home, and Sudeley was the last home of Catherine ... Read the complete review
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