02007nam a22002177a 4500 St Aloysius Coll 20260122161708.0 260119b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781472223883 AL English 823.92 OFAM Maggie Ofarrell 252258 Marriage portrait UK Tinder Press 2022 438p. PB 19.5x13cm General 5468 ₹559.00 ₹ ₹699.00 20% 10/01/2026 Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023 A Reese's Bookclub December Pick (2022) An Instant Sunday Times, New York Times and Irish Times Bestseller (August 2022) A Guardian and LitHub Book of the Year (December 2022) 'Every bit as evocative and spellbinding as Hamnet. O'Farrell, thank God, just seems to be getting better and better' i newspaper 'Her narrative enchantment will wrest suspense and surprise out of a death foretold' Financial Times 'Ingenious, inventive, humane, wry, truthful . . . better than her last novel' Scotsman 'Finely written and vividly imagined' Guardian 'In O'Farrell's hands, historical detail comes alive' Spectator Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner it occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso has a sinister purpose in bringing her here. He intends to kill her. Lucrezia is sixteen years old, and has led a sheltered life locked away inside Florence's grandest palazzo. Here, in this remote villa, she is entirely at the mercy of her increasingly erratic husband. What is Lucrezia to do with this sudden knowledge? What chance does she have against Alfonso, ruler of a province, and a trained soldier? How can she ensure her survival. The Marriage Portrait is an unforgettable reimagining of the life of a young woman whose proximity to power places her in mortal danger. Literature English Literature 251760 ddc BK 240793 240793 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAENG SACPG SACPG 2026-01-14 Biblios Book Point 559.00 0 823.92 OFAM PG025161 2026-01-19 19:21:54 699.00 0000-00-00 BK