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Suzannah Dunn is the author of nine previous books of fiction: 'Darker Days Than Usual', 'Blood Sugar', 'Past Caring', `Venus Flaring', 'Quite Contrary', 'Tenterhooks', 'Commencing Our Descent', 'Queen of Subtleties' and `The Sixth Wife'. Her most recent novel is `The Confession of Katherine Howard'. She lives in Shropshire.
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Dunn fails to deliver in her newest melodrama, a meandering historical that chronicles the expedition of Rafael, a Spanish retainer sent on what he is told will be a brief trip to construct a sundial for Mary Tudor. But once he arrives in xenophobic and unstable England, Rafael does little but whine about the weather and how much he misses his wife and son. Unfortunately for Rafael, his project is delayed, and while waiting to return home, he becomes infatuated with Cecily, a tender housekeeper who becomes his constant companion despite their language barrier. They fall in love (albeit excruciatingly slowly), but their affair is complicated by Rafael's conflicting feelings for his wife. Mary, meanwhile, plays a very secondary role until a late-book shift in which she becomes a paramount force in the narrative as it tumbles toward a surprising conclusion. Although Dunn nails Rafael's fascination with sex, and her eye for detail remains sharp, much of the prose feels stilted, and the interminably slow plot is hobbled by a wallowing narrator and facile treatments of isolation, religious tension and icy domestic life. (Dec.)
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused the tragedy of Mary Tudor. These are desperate times for Mary Tudor. As Englands first ruling queen, her joy should be complete when she marries Philip, the dashing Prince of Spain. But despite her ardent devotion, hes making it painfully obvious that he cares little for his new wife and her struggle to produce an heir only makes him colder towards him. Lonely and depressed, Mary begins to vent her anguish on her people and England becomes a place of cruelty, persecution and fear.Marys terrible fall from grace is seen through the eyes of Rafael, a Spanish sundial maker who is part of the Princes flamboyant entourage. He becomes the one person that she trusts, but his life and new-found love will be caught in the chaos that follows A queen brought low by love compromised and power abused the tragedy of Mary Tudor. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780007258284
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