This is another short story in the author's series of novels tracing the lives of Henry VIII's six wives. This is told from the point of view of Margery Otwell, one of the handmaids to Katherine of Aragon, who continues to serve her mistress when she falls into disfavour and the King forces through their divorce. As the pressure grows on her mistress as she lays dying at Kimbolton, pressure largely driven by the ever more powerful Boleyn faction at court, a sinister network closes in on Margery. Quite a sudden and shocking ending. ( )

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