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A net for small fishes /

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court. With Frankie, I could have the life I had always wanted and with me she could forge something more satisf...

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Main Author:	Jago, Lucy (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Flatiron Books, [2021].
Edition:	First US edition.
Subjects:	Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, > Countess of, > 1593-1632 > Fiction. Turner, Anne, > 1576-1615 > Fiction. Great Britain > History > James I, 1603-1625 > Fiction. Historical fiction.

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