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    The Sixth Wife: A Novel

    By Suzannah Dunn

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    A gripping novel of love, passion, betrayal, and heartbreak in the unstable Tudor court following the death of King Henry VIII

    Clever, level-headed Katherine Parr has suffered through four years of marriage to the aging and irascible King Henry VIII—and she has survived, unlike the five wives who came before her. But less than a year after the old king's death, her heart is won by the dashing Thomas Seymour, and their hasty union undoes a lifetime of prudent caution.

    An unwilling witness to the queen's late-blossoming love, Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk, harbors nagging suspicions of Kate's handsome and ambitious new husband. But as Catherine is drawn deeper into the web of politics ensnaring her oldest friend, it gradually becomes clear that she has her own dark tale to tell. For though Thomas might betray his wife for power, Catherine might betray her for passion, risking everything she has in a world where love is a luxury not even royalty can easily afford.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 15, 2011
    ISBN9780062047236
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    Suzannah Dunn

    Suzannah Dunn is the author of eight previous books of fiction: Darker Days Than Usual, Blood Sugar, Past Caring, Quite Contrary, Venus Flaring, Tenterhooks, Commencing Our Descent and most recently Queen of Subtleties. She lives in Shropshire.

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    • 3/5
      This is the story of Queen Katherine Parr as told by her friend Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk. It covers the years from Henry VIII's death till Catherine's own in 1548. While some liberty has been taken with the story a lot of facts are correct and it was an enjoyable read.
    • 1/5
      Another disappointing novel from Suzannah Dunn (although nowhere near as bad as The Confession of Catherine Howard. The focus is Katherine Parr, Henry VII's last queen, in her brief marriage to her fourth husband, Thomas Seymour, and the narrator is Catherine Brandon, third wife and now widow of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. While it sounds promising, Dunn manages to make all of her characters either insipid or despicable. "Kate" Parr, a four-times wed woman in her mid-thirties, is so naive that she has no clue that her new husband is an ambitious bounder, and she indulges his spendthrift ways. Worse still, the friend she has called on to help her through a difficult pregnancy ends up bonking her husband on a regular basis--and this is the narrator, so with whom are we supposed to identify or empathize? On top of that, she obviously detests the young Elizabeth, who is rendered extremely unlikeable, constantly rolling her eyes at what anyone else says, and Jane Grey is depicted as a Protestant fanatic and a stick-in-the-mud, even though she is only 10 years old. One of Dunn's most annoying and anachronistic tricks from The Confession of Catherine Howard shows up again: Characters repeatedly greet one another with "Hello, you," or in some cases, they just stare at one another and say, "You." (I hated this in another book not by Dunn, Lori Larsen's The Girls; it's just so irritating and phony.)So all-in-all, there's not much to be commended here, and I'll be giving away the thrid Dunn on my shelf without bothering to read it. I'm sure I'd only find Anne Boleyn gazing at King Henry and murmuring "You," and that would truly make me retch.
    • 5/5
      I thought it was well written. Liked it much better than the The Queen of Subleties. Loved Kate for her strength and was saddened that she was the one to perish. Cathy surprised me by getting caught up with Henry but I felt she redeemed herself in the end. Guess I must be a hopeless romantic when it comes to English lit.
    • 3/5
      I can't say that I really warmed to the character of Cathy. I have just finished reading The Queen's Sorrow, and much preferred the characters and writing in that book.
    • 3/5
      This is an easy and entertaining read, the story of the life of Henry VIII's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who outlived her husband.