The Sixth Wife
Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk, is Kate Parr's best friend. An unwilling witness to the dowager queen's late-blossoming love, she harbours nagging suspicions of Kate's handsome, ambitious new husband. But as Cathy is drawn deeper into the web of politics ensnaring her oldest friend, it gradually becomes clear she has her own dark tale to tell. For if Thomas might betray his wife for power, then sharp, canny Cathy might betray her for passion...
In her second historical novel, Suzannah Dunn brings a tumultuous era to magnificent life. THE SIXTH WIFE is a compelling and tragic tale of one woman's discovery of love, betrayal and death.
Reviews
My, what a story ... delightfully vulgar and utterly compelling.
Mesmerising and beautifully written.
Easily au fait with her sources... with some taut plotting which confines the drama to a small, clearly defined cast, mak[ing] the danger and vulnerability on which these Tudor lives were predicted uncomfortably easy to understand.
Suzannah Dunn ... weaves a kind of love story that is both moving and believable. This is the Tudor world as seldom seen ... The result is historical chick lit at its most charming.
We are time-travelled to Tudor times and there is no sense of costumed pageant – the events feel raw, happening as we watch … Dunn has a real ability to conjure up a living breathing past – a great talent.
Dunn is as sharp on historical detail as she is on the workings of the human heart.
Dunn [sheds] possible new light on Katharine's marriage to Thomas Seymour and her final days are treated with sympathy and skill.
Dunn brings people from Tudor times vividly to life.
Dunn’s real strength lies in her ability to reveal, in a fastpaced and vividly readable style, the hidden complexities of life in this period ... Finely drawn and intensely believable characters.
A tale of excess and lust ... this one doesn’t disappoint.
Mesmerising and beautifully written.
Convincing and compulsive."<br />
Powerful.
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