num_pages: 528
description: From the bestselling author of "The Other Boleyn Girl" comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII, and the one woman who destroyed two of his queens. The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where to her both language and habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she senses a trap closing around her. Catherine is confident that she can follow in the steps of her cousin Anne Boleyn to dazzle her way to the throne but her kinswoman Jane Boleyn, haunted by the past, knows that Anne's path led to Tower Green and to an adulterer's death. The story of these three young women, trying to make their own way through the most volatile court in Europe at a time of religious upheaval and political uncertainty is Philippa Gregory's most intense novel yet
language: English
title: The Boleyn Inheritance
titlecomplete: The Boleyn Inheritance
characters: Jane Boleyn, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, 2nd Earl of Surrey, Thomas Culpepper, Catherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cromwell
genres: Fiction, Historical, British Literature, Romance, Adult, Tudor Period, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Audiobook
ratings_count: 90187
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