Alison Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen; The Marriage Game; A Dangerous Inheritance; Captive Queen; The Lady Elizabeth; and Innocent Traitor and numerous historical biographies, including The Lost Tudor Princess, Elizabeth of York, Mary Boleyn, The Lady in the Tower, Mistress of the Monarchy, Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, The Life of Elizabeth I, and The Six Wives of Henry VIII. She lives in Surrey, England, with her husband.
“A persuasive attempt to restore the humanity of a tragic,
misrepresented figure, one of history’s original nasty women . . .
Weir’s fictional Anne is ferociously smart and guilty of nothing
but craving the power that’s rightfully hers to claim.”—NPR
“This is a stunning, engaging, comprehensive and convincing novel.
. . . Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession is important,
page-turning biographical fiction, hauntingly and beautifully told
in first-person narrative. It is psychologically penetrating and
packed with wonderful, vivid scenes. [Alison] Weir’s
characterisation is superb, and this complex novel will be, without
doubt, one of the most admired works of historical fiction of
2017.”—Historical Novels Review
“One of historical fiction’s most compelling and exciting portraits
of the enduringly fascinating and mysterious Anne
Boleyn.”—Lancashire Evening Post
“Anne Boleyn, A King’s Obsession is beautifully written,
exquisitely detailed, and gives readers a more down-to-earth
picture of the often maligned Anne. . . . Don’t miss this
series.”—Romance Reviews Today
“This Anne is clever and clear-sighted. . . . Those sympathetic to
Boleyn tend to stumble at her documented spite towards Katherine of
Aragon and Mary Tudor, but Weir roots this bad behaviour in
understandable insecurity as the King’s ardour for her wanes and
the longed-for son does not arrive. This tale of Anne’s ascent and
demise cannot escape comparisons with Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall
series, which deals with the same events. Weir’s version [is]
detailed, immaculately researched and convincing. She is
particularly interesting on Anne’s probable exposure to early
feminist writings.”—The Times (UK)
“[Weir] explores Anne’s influences and motivations, creating a
multifaceted portrait of an ambitious woman who reluctantly accedes
to Henry’s courtship and later acts out of desperation to protect
herself and her daughter, Elizabeth. Even readers who know Anne’s
story well should gain insights from this revealing
novel.”—Booklist
“A richly detailed rendering of the familiar Tudor drama . . . Weir
brings considerable expertise to her portrait of Anne as ‘a flawed
but very human heroine, a woman of great ambition, idealism and
courage’ . . . [and] vividly depicts court life.”—Kirkus
Reviews
“A well-written and fast-paced novel that should appeal to fans of
Tudor-era fiction looking for a fresh look at one of the period’s
most popular protagonists . . . Weir’s Anne, an intellectual and
ambitious woman highly interested in the latest thinking about both
religion and women’s social roles, fits in well with the recent
impulse in both scholarship and fiction to reclaim Anne from being
portrayed as merely a manipulative temptress and cold-hearted
homewrecker. Anne in the years before she catches Henry’s eye is
particularly interesting.”—Library Journal
“A marvelous book—Anne comes alive and leaps from the page,
fascinating, enthralling, full blooded—you can’t help but fall in
love with her. A brilliant evocation of the period and a knife-edge
moment in British history. Wonderful.”—Kate Williams, author of
Becoming Queen Victoria
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