The Last Wife of Henry VIII

The Last Wife of Henry VIII

1980 • 326 pages

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Gabbyhm
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I was a little worried about this one because historians don't always make great fiction authors, but Carolly Erickson's work here was aggressively fine. Catherine Parr comes across as generally sensible and level-headed and therefore easy to root for, though the idea that she would have had a physical relationship with Tom Seymour while Henry remained alive is preposterous, given that she'd lived through Catherine Howard's grisly execution for the same crime shortly beforehand. She took a few liberties with the historical record, but overall crafted a book that was reasonably enjoyable but not at all memorable.

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