The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell The Witcher and essential for understanding South

and essential for understanding South Africa's power structures

and anyone who loved The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Every time her eyes flare with heat

struggles with grief and the secrets his wife left behind

The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell The Witcher and essential for understanding SouthHaunting, lush, and utterly gripping a masterclass in historical fiction. Florence, 1550. Lucrezia de Medici is barely sixteen when she is married off to Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara. Behind the grandeur of the Renaissance court lies a chilling reality: a husband who desires control above all else, and a portrait that may seal her fate. Maggie OFarrell brings Lucrezias world to vivid, dangerous life with her signature lyrical prose and feminist