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Starred Review. Returning to the scene of The Other Boleyn Girl, historical powerhouse Gregory again brings the women of Henry VIII's court vividly to life. Among the cast, who alternately narrate: Henry's fourth wife, Bavarian-born Anne of Cleves; his fifth wife, English teenager Katherine Howard; and Lady Rochford (Jane Boleyn), the jealous spouse whose testimony helped send her husband... and sister-in-law Anne Boleyn to their execution. Attended by Lady Rochford, 24-year-old Anne of Cleves endures a disastrous first encounter with the twice-her-age king—an occasion where Henry takes notice of Katherine Howard. Gregory beautifully explains Anne of Cleves's decision to stay in England after her divorce, and offers contemporary descriptions of Lady Rochford's madness. While Gregory renders Lady Rochford with great emotion, and Anne of Cleves with sympathy, her most captivating portrayal is Katherine, the clever yet naïve 16th-century adolescent counting her gowns and trinkets. Male characters are not nearly as endearing. Gregory's accounts of events are accurate enough to be persuasive, her characterizations modern enough to be convincing. Rich in intrigue and irony, this is a tale where readers will already know who was divorced, beheaded or survived, but will savor Gregory's sharp staging of how and why. (Dec. 5) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Just when we think we have heard the last of the Boleyns, after The Other Boleyn Girl (2002), Gregory resurrects the ill-fated family in the persona of Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford. After her damning testimony results in the execution of both her husband and her sister-in-law, Anne Boleyn, Jane continues her ruthless scheming as she serves as lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's reviled Bavarian-born fourth wife, and naive, doomed [fifth] wife, Catherine Howard. Narrated in turn by this trio of intriguing women, this tale of court politics and treachery unfolds from three equally compelling points of view. Margaret FlanaganCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Product details
Series: The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels (Book 5)
Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Atria Books; 1st edition (December 5, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743272501
ISBN-13: 978-0743272506
Product Dimensions:
6.2 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
815 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#391,053 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This novel takes place in the latter part of King Henry the Eighth's reign. Henry is sick-both physically and mentally-and has become a horrifying tyrant. His beloved queen, Jane Seymour, has been dead for two years, and he is preparing to make an important political marriage. Three women enter this setting; and the novel is narrated in turn by all of them. One is the quiet, intelligent Anne of Cleve's, who comes to England to marry the king. Another is Catherine Howard, a lively, sensual teenager who loves a boy her own age-but ends up catching the king's eye. Last of all is Jane Boleyn,the skilled courtier and maid of honor- whose testimony helped send her husband to the scaffold. This rich, absorbing novel is one of Ms Gregory's best, because she literally gives each woman her own voice. The writing style changes as each one speaks, so that the reading experience becomes more personal: you feel as if you KNOW these ladies, and this feeling leads you to care about them. I highly recommend this book.
This book makes a good follow-up to the movie "The Other Boleyn Girl," which I saw just before I read this book. The book is told from the perspectives of three women: Jane Boleyn (she refers to Anne as her "sister," which is confusing because she was her sister-in-law), Anne of Cleves and young Katherine Howard. The book's biggest flaw is that it was somewhat tedious to read Katherine's entries, with so much greedy focus on her possessions.It was interesting to read about an era vastly different from our own. Back then, a 50 year old was considered of "great age" (elderly) and impotence was often blamed on a curse, witch's spell or "ill-wishing."Court life was of course very interesting. Everyone around Henry was in danger - "The fire of the king's displeasure can burn up anyone".- "kinship with the king gives no immunity from fear, friendship with the king gives no safety." There was also no shortage of enemies within the court - "Everyone is always our enemy, but right now we are winning." Women were just pawns in the game.Philippa Gregory writes well and describes things in an interesting way, for example "Katherine holds his attention like a dancing mayfly holds the attention of the fat, gaping carp." The book's title is clever and explained towards the end of the book.
When it comes to historical fiction, I do think the most fascinating time period is the reign of King Henry VIII during the first half of the 16th century. Why? It was such a soap opera! Everything was done to excess—eating, drinking, gossiping, playing and most of all extraordinarily bad behavior. This book, part of the Plantagenet and Tudor Novels series by Philippa Gregory, tells the story of the fourth and fifth wives of old King Henry.No. 4 was Anne of Cleaves, the only one of his six wives to escape the marriage with her life intact. Henry despised her for many reasons, and only months after what he quickly considered a sham marriage, he caught the eye of 15-year-old Katherine Howard, portrayed in this book as a ditzy, greedy, vain and vapid little girl.While this fictional story that is faithful to the historical facts may read like a soap opera in the extreme, Philippa Gregory has written this book with a touch of literary genius. Each chapter is told in the first person by one of three people: Anne of Cleaves, Katherine Howard or Jane Boleyn, who served both Anne and Katherine as a lady-in-waiting and was the sister-in-law of the doomed Anne Boleyn. Gregory so deftly and vividly distinguishes each of these three women's personalities and voices that chapter titles are almost not needed. Read a few sentences, and you will know who is the narrator. It is an extraordinary writing feat that adds abundant richness to an already gripping narrative. And face it, that's tough to do when anyone who studied European history in high school already knows the tragic, gruesome and terror-filled ending.A valuable lesson to learn from this period of history: King Henry VIII may have received the crown humbly in 1509, but he turned into a tyrannical monarch who assumed he had the right to absolute power. He truly believed that whatever he did, no matter how horrific, violent or cruel, was the will of God. There were no checks and balances on his power. To silence his enemies, he killed them—thousands and thousands of them. He stole. He lied (a lot). He was duplicitous. He terrified an entire country. He proved that absolute power absolutely corrupts.
I love history, and imagining the lives of all those who lived and breathed before our own time. I've studied quite a bit of the Tudor era, and I like how Philippa Gregory takes historical fact and adds her own suggestions as to the motives of these historical figures. I like the personalization and the human element she puts on these very real people. My only critiques on The Boleyn Inheritance was that "the Boleyn Inheritance" was a phrase far too often repeated. It became redundant after awhile. I also felt that poor Katherine Howard was depicted as a bit too idiotic. Historically, she was a not very educated child; raised in a home with very little guidance and nurturing, this is true. However, she was just a child. A teenager could never hold a candle to the grace and intellect of Catherine of Aragon, or the wit and cosmopolitan air of Anne Boleyn. I thought it a bit unfair to depict her as such a total shallow idiot. Aside from these, I enjoyed this book very much.
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