num_pages: 518
description: Three women who share one fate: the Boleyn InheritanceANNE OF CLEVES: She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a court ruled by the terror of a vengeful king who despises her. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witness.KATHERINE HOWARD: She is in love -- but not with the diseased old man who made her queen and beds her night after night. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe.JANE ROCHFORD: She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul.The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory is at her intelligent, page-turning best.
language: English
title: The Boleyn Inheritance
titlecomplete: The Boleyn Inheritance (The Tudors, #3)
characters: Catherine Howard, Thomas Culpepper, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 2nd Earl of Surrey, Henry VIII of England, Anne of Cleves, Jane Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell
genres: Historical, Audiobook, British Literature, Adult, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Tudor Period, Adult Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 90184
places: England
series: The Tudor Court, The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award)
category: Best Historical Fiction
publisher: Touchstone Books