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Jago, Lucy.
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Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, Countess of, 1593-1632 -- Fiction.
Turner, Anne, 1576-1615 -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625 -- Fiction.
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Jago, Lucy.
Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, Countess of, 1593-1632 -- Fiction.
Turner, Anne, 1576-1615 -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- James I, 1603-1625 -- Fiction.
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A net for small fishes / Lucy Jago.
by
Jago, Lucy.
Flatiron Books, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION
JAG
Subjects
Somerset, Frances Howard Carr, Countess of, 1593-1632
--
Fiction
.
Turner
,
Anne
,
1576-1615
--
Fiction
.
Great Britain
--
History
--
James I, 1603-1625
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9781250261953 (hc.)
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Description:
336 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
""A bravura historical debut . . . a gloriously immersive escape." -Guardian Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in Lucy Jago's A Net For Small Fishes, a gripping dark novel based on the true scandal of two women determined to create their own fates in the Jacobean court. With Frankie, I could have the life I had always wanted . . . and with me she could forge something more satisfying from her own . . . When Frances Howard, beautiful but unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex, meets the talented
Anne
Turner
, the two strike up an unlikely, yet powerful, friendship. Frances makes
Anne
her confidante, sweeping her into a glamorous and extravagant world, riven with bitter rivalry. As the women grow closer, each hopes to change her circumstances. Frances is trapped in a miserable marriage while loving another, and newly-widowed
Anne
struggles to keep herself and her six children alive as she waits for a promised proposal. A desperate plan to change their fortunes is hatched. But navigating the Jacobean court is a dangerous game and one misstep could cost them everything"--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
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