The Marriage Portrait

Resumen del libro

Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso.

As they sit down to dinner it occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso has a sinister purpose in bringing her here. He intends to kill her. Lucrezia is sixteen years old, and has led a sheltered life locked away inside Florence's grandest palazzo.

Here, in this remote villa, she is entirely at the mercy of her increasingly erratic husband. What is Lucrezia to do with this sudden knowledge? What chance does she have against Alfonso, ruler of a province, and a trained soldier? How can she ensure her survival. The Marriage Portrait is an unforgettable reimagining of the life of a young woman whose proximity to power places her in mortal danger.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Maggie Ox{0026} x02019;Farrellx{0026}lt;/b (1972) nació en Coleraine, Irlanda del Norte. Ha publicado las novelas x{0026}lt;i After Youx{0026} x02019;d Gonex{0026}lt;/i (2000), x{0026}lt;i My Loverx{0026} x02019;s Loverx{0026}lt;/i (2002), x{0026}lt;i La distancia que nos separax{0026}lt;/i (2004; Libros del Asteroide, 2024; ganadora del premio Somerset Maugham), x{0026}lt;i La extraña desaparición de Esme Lennoxx{0026}lt;/i (2007), x{0026}lt;i La primera mano que sostuvo la míax{0026}lt;/i (2010; Libros del Asteroide, 2018; ganadora del premio Costa de novela), x{0026}lt;i Instrucciones para una ola de calorx{0026}lt;/i (2013), x{0026}lt;i Tiene que ser aquíx{0026}lt;/i (2016; Libros del Asteroide, 2017), los bestsellers internacionales x{0026}lt;i Hamnetx{0026}lt;/i (2020, Libros del Asteroide, 2021; galardonada con el Womenx{0026} x02019;s Prize for Fiction y el National Book Critics Circle Award) y x{0026}lt;i El retrato de casadax{0026}lt;/i (2022; Libros del Asteroide, 2023), así como un libro de memorias, x{0026}lt;i Sigo aquíx{0026}lt;/i (2017; Libros del Asteroide, 2019).x{0026}lt;/p