The Boleyn Inheritance

Alternate Titles

• German (Paperback Jan 16, 2010) - Das Erbe der Königin

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***An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.*** ***The author of The Other Boleyn Girl (2002) returns to the executed queen's doomed family in a historical novel that maps the sad demise of Henry VIII in a series of intimate personal testimonies.*** ***Gregory's tale of greed and revenge takes place against the short, unhappy tenures of Henry's fourth and fifth wives. Jockeying for position close to the throne, three powerful, ambitious women collide. The author skillfully allows each character to tell her side of the story in her own words.*** **The first voice we hear belongs to 30-year-old Jane Boleyn, widowed sister-in-law to Anne.** Jane's husband George was implicated in his sister's alleged infidelities and went with her to the scaffold in 1533; his calculating wife moved to save her inheritance rather than her husband and six years later is still scheming. **Next up is Anne of Cleves, soon to be Queen Number Four, a provincial, German-speaking Protestant princess chosen by Henry's advisor, Thomas Cromwell,** as a politically suitable alliance to keep Spain and France at bay. Badgered and bullied all her life by her brother and mother, 24-year-old Anne wants nothing more than to escape Cleves and have a meaningful life. **The third voice belongs to Katherine Howard, a pretty, 15-year-old cousin of the dead Anne Boleyn** and an incorrigible flirt who is brought to court as a lady-in-waiting by her conniving, powerful uncle, the Duke of Norfolk. Also summoned to court to attend the new queen, Jane begins plotting behind the scenes with Norfolk to assure Anne of Cleve's hasty fall and Katherine's quick ascent in Henry's favor.

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***Three Women Who Share One Fate: The Boleyn Inheritance*** ***Anne of Cleves:*** She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witness. ***Katherine Howard:*** She is in love - but not with the diseased old man who made her queen and beds her night after night. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of an ax. ***Jane Rochford:*** She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister in law to their deaths. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchanged for her soul. "Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about three woman whose positions brought them wealth, admiration and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory is at her intelligent, page-turning best." **''Gregory bring[s] to life the sights, smells, textures an[d] emotional landscapes of 16th century England.''*--KATE MOSSE***

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• The Tudor Saga - 4

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Other Editions

• The Boleyn Inheritance: from the author of ''The Other Boleyn Girl''PaperbackHarper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers2007-01-01
• Boleyn InheritanceTouchstone/Simon & Schuster2006-01-01
• The Boleyn InheritanceAudio CDRecorded Books2006-01-01
• The Boleyn InheritanceAudio CDSimon & Schuster Audio2006-12-05
• The Boleyn InheritanceHardcoverTouchstone2006-12-05
• The Boleyn InheritanceHardcoverThorndike Press2007-01-09