Portrait of an Unknown Woman - Hardcover

VANORA BENNETT

3.66

4,460 ratings by Goodreads

9780007224920: Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007224923 ISBN 13: 9780007224920

Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LTD, 2006

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Hard to find

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Vanora Bennett is an award-winning journalist who writes a weekly column for The Times (London) Web site, TimesOnline. She lives in North London. Josephine Bailey has won ten AudioFile Earphones Awards and a prestigious Audie Award, and Publishers Weekly named her Best Female Narrator in 2002. Her native British accent has been used in many audiobooks and voice-overs, including The Wild Thornberries, Uncle Gus, and Disney-Dreamworks projects. In addition to her award-winning voice work, Josephine is involved in television, film, and theater. On television she has played parts in Robin Hood, A Tale of Two Cities, and Sword of Freedom. In film she was featured in Shadow Hours, Life's a Circus, and Corridors of Blood. Her theater experience includes lead roles in Betrayal, Otherwise Engaged, and Blithe Spirit. Josephine received her training from the Corona Stage School in London and the Tracy Roberts Actors Studio in Los Angeles. Josephine currently resides in South Carolina.

From AudioFile:

Josephine Bailey brings passion to a work that intends to be a work of historical fiction but often betrays the heart of a romance novel. The woman of the title is Meg Giggs, the incisive, open-hearted 23-year-old adopted daughter of Sir Thomas More. His famous death at the hands of Henry VIII lies just beyond the conclusion of this novel, but all the religious and political tensions that ordained it are deeply entwined in the plot, as are a series of fictive secrets involving the Mores. Its hardly Baileys fault that Bennett superimposes a modern sexual sensibility on sixteenth-century characters. Baileys earnestness is convincing even if Bennetts plot turns lack credibility. M.O. � AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.