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The Duchess's Diary is the first in a trilogy of novels imagining and expanding the lives of some of Cervantes' most memorable characters, set against the colourful and exotic backdrop of 17th century Spain. Maria Isabel, Duchess of Caparroso, falls in love with Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, but believes he has misrepresented her character in his work. She records her thoughts and actions in a diary, weaving back and forth between the golden summer when she first met 'her author', and her present distressing situation. Regarded as hysterical by her boorish husband, she is bled by her doctor who weekly drains off 'bad humours' from gashes kept permanently open in her thighs. Cervantes alludes to this in Don Quixote II; a betrayal too painful for the Duchess to bear. But her resentment gradually diminishes as she recalls her relationship with Cervantes, whose idea the diary was, and she comes to realise that writing it has been her salvation.
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"A moving and imaginative peeling away of those dark and tragic layers which underline the shiny gloss of fiction in the course of which, almost casually but with amazing grace, Robin Chapman recreates the whole world of Cervantes's Spain."
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Boudicca Books, London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0950671509
ISBN 13: 9780950671505
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