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O’Farrell is a marvelous stylist, and The Marriage Portrait is full of the same kinds of intense details that made Hamnet come alive. Her characters are captivating and believable, and the landscape of Renaissance Italy is a veritable gift to the senses, so powerfully does O’Farrell evoke the sights, sounds and smells of forest, castle and ...
Sep 27, 2022 · The Marriage Portrait is Maggie O' Farrell's fictional interpretation of Lucrezia de Cosimo de Medici, who fights to survive her forced marriage with her abhorrent husband, Duke Alfonso II. In an ...
Sep 6, 2022 · Maggie O’Farrell’s latest novel, The Wedding Portrait, reimagines the true story of a 16-year old duchess, Lucrezia di Cosimo de Medici, believed to have been murdered by her husband. Set in Florence, Italy, in the 1550s, the novel begins with the frenzied thoughts of the girl, who both loves and fears the man to whom she has been given in ...
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Sep 30, 2022 · Maggie O’Farrell, the bestselling author of “Hamnet,” takes on the scandal-filled royal courts of Renaissance Italy in her new novel, “The Marriage Portrait,” which follows the short ...
Jul 11, 2023 · O'Farrell is a marvelous stylist, and The Marriage Portrait is full of the same kinds of intense details that made Hamnet come alive. Her characters are captivating and believable, and the landscape of Renaissance Italy is a veritable gift to the senses, so powerfully does O'Farrell evoke the sights, sounds and smells of forest, castle and ...
Maggie O'Farrell, RSL (born 27 May 1972), is a novelist from Northern Ireland. ... The Marriage Portrait was shortlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction.
