I bought this from the Trinity Hospice charity shop in Lytham St Annes a couple of days ago while taking a short break from our energetic dancing holiday on the Lancashire coast. Despite not recognising the title nor the author, I chose it because I enjoy tales from the Tudor court and have a particular interest in Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's sixth wife, the one who became a widow with his death!

This was only OK, disappointingly so, although it did pick up towards good somewhere around the middle .... and I enjoyed it enough to finish it, was never tempted to give up!
I starts in 1543 with the death of Katherine Parr's second husband, Lord John Latymer, follows her through her marriage to Henry VIII, and ends with her own death of childbed fever in 1548, plus an epilogue on the fate of her fourth husband, Thomas Seymour.

Heading to beautiful Scotland with my sister- and brother-in-law who stopped overnight on their way north from the south west! Enjoy :-)

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