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Anne Boleyn : a king's obsession : a novel
First Title value, for Searching:
Anne Boleyn : a king's obsession : a novel
First Author value, for Searching:
Weir, Alison, 1951- author.
ISBN:
9781101966518
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Display Publication Info:
New York :

Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,

[2017]
Physical Description:
541 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm.
Series:
Six Tudor queens
Six Tudor queens.
Abstract:
Henry VIII is risking his marriage and the political strategies of Cardinal Wolsey in his obsession to marry Anne Boleyn, who does not welcome the king's advances and loathes the cardinal for breaking her betrothal to Harry Percy.

Anne is barely a teenager when she is sent from her family's Hever Castle to serve at the royal court of the Netherlands. There, and later in France, Anne thrives. But her powerful family has ambitious plans for her future that override any wishes of her own. When the King of England himself, Henry VIII, asks Anne to be his mistress, she spurns his advances-- he is a married man who has already conducted an affair with her sister, Mary. This rejection only intensifies Henry's pursuit, tempting Anne even as it proves to be her undoing.