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 d
