Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - A year ago
Views - 3
Ships From - Tennessee
Est. Publication Date - Apr 2011
Seller Description
When twelve-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live more different than her poor relation, Cat Tilney Yet, of all their companions, it is Cat, watchful and ambitious, to whom the seemingly frivolous young girl confides. When Katherine is summoned to the royal court at seventeen- to become, months later, the wife of Henry VIII after he casts off his previous queen she leaves behind an ex-lover, Francis, with whom Cat is soon passionately involved. But a future that seems assured for the pampered new queen and her maid-in-waiting lasts a brief year and a half, only to be imperiled by improper acts and scandalous allegations of girlhood love affairs Imprisoned in the Tower and hoping to escape a most terrible fate, a frightened, desperate Katherine relates a version of events that only Cat recognizes as a lie-as more than one life, is threatened by what she alone knows to be the truth about Katherine Howard's past.
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The Confession of Katherine Howard
ISBN: 9780062011473
Publisher Description
From Suzannah Dunn, the critically acclaimed author of The Queen of Subtleties, The Sixth Wife and The Queen's Sorrow, comes the tragic, gripping, and intensely moving story of Katherine Howard--the f...
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