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Kat Howard, intelligent, beautiful, naively outspoken and passionately idealistic, catches the eye of Henry VIII and improbably becomes his fifth wife. A teenager who has grown up far from court, she is wholly unused to the corruption and intrigue that now surround her. It is a time of great upheava...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939
Other Authors: Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2011.
Edition:1st Vintage Classics ed.
Series:Vintage classics.
Subjects:
Catherine Howard, > Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, > -1542 > Fiction.
Cromwell, Thomas, > Earl of Essex, > 1485?-1540 > Fiction.
Queens > Great Britain > Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary:Kat Howard, intelligent, beautiful, naively outspoken and passionately idealistic, catches the eye of Henry VIII and improbably becomes his fifth wife. A teenager who has grown up far from court, she is wholly unused to the corruption and intrigue that now surround her. It is a time of great upheaval, as unscrupulous courtiers maneuver for power while religious fanatics, both Protestant and Catholic, fight bitterly for their competing beliefs. Soon Katharine is drawn into a perilous showdown with Thomas Cromwell, the much-feared Lord Privy Seal, as her growing influence over the King begins to threaten too many powerful interests.
Physical Description:xvi, 607 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9780307744913 (pbk.)
0307744914 (pbk.)