The Marriage Portrait [SIGNED LIMITED UK EDITION, #463/1000]

O'Farrell, Maggie

ISBN 10: 1035402750 / ISBN 13: 9781035402755

Published by Tinder Press, 2022

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New in new slipcase. SIGNED by the author on a special signature page (signature only). LIMITED UK edition, #463/1000. New, unread copy. A novel of the allegedly poisoned Lucrezia de' Medici by the Betty Trask Award-, Costa Book Award-, Women's Prize for Fiction-, Harper's Bazaar's Women of the Year Award-, Somerset Maugham Award-, Dalkey Literary Award-, KPMG Children's Books Ireland Award-, and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of ?Hamnet? and ?The Hand That First Held Mine?. The Limited edition is rare. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Seller Inventory # 004882

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Marriage Portrait [SIGNED LIMITED UK ...

Publisher: Tinder Press

Publication Date: 2022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: No dust Jacket as issued

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First limited edition.

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Synopsis:

'I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal. Treat her thus.' Florence, the 1560s. Lucrezia, third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici, is free to wander the palazzo at will, wondering at its treasures and observing its clandestine workings. But when her older sister dies on the eve of marriage to Alfonso d'Este, heir to the Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the Alfonso is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father to accept on her behalf.Having barely left girlhood, Lucrezia must now make her way in a troubled court whose customs are opaque and where her arrival is not universally welcomed. Perhaps most mystifying of all is her husband himself, Alfonso. Is he the playful sophisticate he appears before their wedding, the aesthete happiest in the company of artists and musicians, or the ruthless politician before whom even his formidable sisters seem to tremble?As Lucrezia sits in uncomfortable finery for the painting which is to preserve her image for centuries to come, one thing becomes worryingly clear. In the court's eyes, she has one to provide the heir who will shore up the future of the Ferrarese dynasty. Until then, for all of her rank and nobility, her future hangs entirely in the balance.