false 4 0 false false Wed Jul 22 10:01:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 10:17:37 -0700 2009 The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory is a delicious summer read, taking us on a journey through Tudor England from the first person point of view of Anne of Cleves, her replacement wife Katherine Howard and lady-in-waiting and confidant to them both, Jane Rochford.

We move about the dangerous world of Henry VIII's court as each of these wives begins their precarious career as a woman in the life of King Henry. We experience, first hand, the naivete of Anne, coming site unseen from Germany and determined to prove an innocent and wholesome wife to the sensuously rapacious English monarch. We follow Katherine Howard from her beginnings in the English court. She is placed there as a teen by devious and scheming relatives and used by them throughout her short and tragic life.

In spite of the fact that the conclusion of the story is well known, the book is well worth the read.

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