Amenable Woman. A Novel of Sisterhood and Survival.

London England: Faber & Faber ., 2008. Hardback. Slight shelf wear to edges of D/J. Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her dashing and infuriating husband, Edward, dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Ever pragmatic, Flora seizes upon her new freedom and decides to finish Edward's history of Hurcott Ducis, the village where they've spent their married life. A reference to Anna if Cleves, Henry's VIII's fourth wife, unkindly called the 'Flanders Mare', captures Flora's attention and later her affection as she sets about her own research in the hope of elevating Anna's place in history. Meanwhile, in the Louvre, Holbein's portrait of Anna senses the tug of a connection and she begins to tell the real story of how she survived her disastrous Tudor marriage. This novel is about two intelligent women who lived in the shadow of the men they married interweaves a fascinating and little-known part of history with a broader modern tale of love, marraige, self-preservation and motherhood. 344 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback.