I’m probably only a quarter of the way into The Marriage Portrait and I’m already gripped by the revealing of the main character’s childhood and family life. It’s based upon a real life young Italian: Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara who died in 1561 from illness aged sixteen, but rumou...
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I’m probably only a quarter of the way into The Marriage Portrait and I’m already gripped by the revealing of the main character’s childhood and family life. It’s based upon a real life young Italian: Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara who died in 1561 from illness aged sixteen, but rumou...
Check out the book and author bios below along with all the links you’ll need to bring this book home asap and enjoy an invigorating new thriller yourself. B & N|Bookshop|Goodreads|Indiebound|The Storygraph Published: 3 November 2020 Publisher: Made for Success Publishing Age Group: Adult ...
Detail of pansy on hemline of Hardwick Portrait The regular post has moved to a midweek time to accommodate the weekly history challenges. Let’s hope I can stay organised. I’ve been doing some gardening today, making the most of the lovely weather. At this rate I’ll have the tidiest ...
The basic idea of free love in the Reconstruction era was the freedom to choose whom to love and to express true love in a sexual relationship outside of marriage. Those who espoused free love believed that government should not interfere in matters of the heart, because the question of who...
Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. Portrait by Richard Rothwell. Public domain as per Wikipedia. During the early part of the 19th century, the British Royal Family was more German than anything else. George III, who ruled from 1760-1820, was the first of the Hanoverian monarchs to...
the characters and the marriage of science and fiction. Nothing is more rewarding than creating paragraphs that scream to be believed despite not being true. Authoring something that could be possible is second only to writing those few sentences that refuse to be forgotten. The ones that stay ...
Finally, we’re eating dinner and this portrait of this lady is hanging over our table in a restaurant. I asked the waiter, who is this woman that I see everywhere? She had this very quizzical, intriguing smile and this beautiful thick, brown hair and she certainly looked very regal. He...
Portrait of a Thief by Grace Li This book did a great job depicting how it feels to be the child of immigrants. The disconnect but also the ties you feel to your heritage. The feeling of not quite fitting in anywhere. How it actually feels at times to be Chinese American. I also lik...