The glittering but corrupt French court, the growing turmoil, the brutal poverty, the intrigues are all illuminated here." -Deirdre Donahue,USA Today "Writers of historical fiction must tread a fine line between loving one's protagonists while telling the truth about them. I thrilled to Marie Antoinette's every incarnation.A very human and multi-textured portrait of a queen who all too often has been reduced to a historical one-liner." -Judith Warner,TheNew York Times Book Review " regains her historical reputation in this historical novel. Praise forThe Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette"I readThe Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinettein two days, and when I finished it, I reread the final pages, as hungry for more as a child scraping the last crumbs of chocolate cake off her plate with her fingers.
In The Last Wife of Henry VIII, critically acclaimed author Carolly Erickson brings this dramatic story of survival and redemption to life. Catherine won the contest, but at great cost. Her triumph was shadowed by rivalry with the young Princess Elizabeth, whose lands and influence the lecherous Seymour coveted. She was spared by his death and married the attractive but dangerously unbalanced Seymour.
She managed to evade execution, but she knew that the king had his wandering eye fixed on wife number seven.
King Henry toyed with her, first ordering her arrested, then granting her clemency. While victims of the king's wrath suffered torture and execution, Catherine persevered-until, at last, she came within the orbit of the royal fury. Catherine Parr attracted the king's lust and, though much in love with the handsome Thomas Seymour, was thrown into the intrigue-filled snake pit of the royal court. Her story, as Carolly Erickson re-creates it, is page-turning drama: from the splendors of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to the gory last years of the outsize King Henry, when heads rolled and England trembled, Catherine bestrode her destiny and survived to marry her true love. Author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette Courageous, attractive, romantic, intelligent, Catherine Parr became the sixth wife of Henry VIII.
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