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Lucy Cornwallis is confectioner to King Henry VIII. The only woman in a kitchen of two hundred men, she sculpts sugar into fantastic ‘subtleties’, for royal celebrations – and tries to avoid the twisted complexities of court life.
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'THE QUEEN OF SUBTLETIES offers a stunningly refreshing way of retelling an old story. I often abandon historical novels nowadays, but I really could not put this one down. It brings Anne Boleyn to life as never before, and, probably for the first time ever in fiction, Henry VIII emerges as a truly credible character in an authentic setting.'
—Alison Weir,
author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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Anne Boleyn – stunning, ambitious, headstrong – has changed the history of England. By taking Henry from his wife, the new queen has now made enemies of all by a favoured few. Powerful forces are gathering to make her pay dearly for her prize. And now the innocent Lucy and her musician confidante, Mark Smeaton, are caught in the maelstrom that will claim her life – and could destroy their dreams….
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’Suzannah Dunn has achieved something remarkable – she has breathed new life into one of the most familiar and retold stories from English history… told with brilliant wit and a lack of sentimentality.’
—Sainsbury’s Magazine (Book of the month)
’The story of Anne Boleyn has been told many times, but never in such an earthy, plausible way.’
—Glamour
’An extraordinarily vivid account of the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn… Dunn gives her characters thoroughly modern language and idioms, and she carries it off brilliantly.’
—Publishing News, ‘Personal Choice’ column.
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the reading group guide.
Suzannah's interview about the writing of The Queen of Subtleties
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