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    The Sixth Wife

    By Suzannah Dunn

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 4, 2008
    ISBN9780007280124
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    The Sixth Wife
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    Suzannah Dunn

    Suzannah Dunn is the author of ten novels in the United Kingdom, including The Sixth Wife and The Queen of Subtleties, both published in the United States as well. She lives in Brighton, England.

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    • 2/5
      More like a 2.5 bcs it feels like too much context is left out in favor of imagined domestic, romantic, and sexual detail that feels like soap opera filler. If there was ever a cast of real world characters who don't need that touch up to create a sense of dramatic arc or intrigue to support a page turning work of historic fiction this might be them ?
    • 3/5
      This is the story of Queen Katherine Parr as told by her friend Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk. It covers the years from Henry VIII's death till Catherine's own in 1548. While some liberty has been taken with the story a lot of facts are correct and it was an enjoyable read.
    • 1/5
      Another disappointing novel from Suzannah Dunn (although nowhere near as bad as The Confession of Catherine Howard. The focus is Katherine Parr, Henry VII's last queen, in her brief marriage to her fourth husband, Thomas Seymour, and the narrator is Catherine Brandon, third wife and now widow of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. While it sounds promising, Dunn manages to make all of her characters either insipid or despicable. "Kate" Parr, a four-times wed woman in her mid-thirties, is so naive that she has no clue that her new husband is an ambitious bounder, and she indulges his spendthrift ways. Worse still, the friend she has called on to help her through a difficult pregnancy ends up bonking her husband on a regular basis--and this is the narrator, so with whom are we supposed to identify or empathize? On top of that, she obviously detests the young Elizabeth, who is rendered extremely unlikeable, constantly rolling her eyes at what anyone else says, and Jane Grey is depicted as a Protestant fanatic and a stick-in-the-mud, even though she is only 10 years old. One of Dunn's most annoying and anachronistic tricks from The Confession of Catherine Howard shows up again: Characters repeatedly greet one another with "Hello, you," or in some cases, they just stare at one another and say, "You." (I hated this in another book not by Dunn, Lori Larsen's The Girls; it's just so irritating and phony.)So all-in-all, there's not much to be commended here, and I'll be giving away the thrid Dunn on my shelf without bothering to read it. I'm sure I'd only find Anne Boleyn gazing at King Henry and murmuring "You," and that would truly make me retch.
    • 5/5
      I thought it was well written. Liked it much better than the The Queen of Subleties. Loved Kate for her strength and was saddened that she was the one to perish. Cathy surprised me by getting caught up with Henry but I felt she redeemed herself in the end. Guess I must be a hopeless romantic when it comes to English lit.
    • 3/5
      I can't say that I really warmed to the character of Cathy. I have just finished reading The Queen's Sorrow, and much preferred the characters and writing in that book.
    • 3/5
      This is an easy and entertaining read, the story of the life of Henry VIII's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who outlived her husband.