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100 _aCheek, Mavis
245 _aAmenable Women
260 _bFaber & Faber
500 _aBook
500 _aMonograph
520 _aSynopsis:Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new found freedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had begun. A reference to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife who he rejected for being ugly, captures her imagination as she begins to delve deeper into the life of this neglected figure. Meanwhile, in the Louvre, Holbein's portrait of Anne of Cleves senses the tug of a connection and she begins to tell the story of the injustices she suffered and just how she survived her marriage . . .
650 _aFiction
942 _cBKSTD
999 _c80485
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