The Boleyn Woman

In 1501 a daughter is born to Thomas Boleyn, a man who needed sons. She learns early what a girl is worth in a family like hers: exactly what she can be traded for.

From the schoolroom at Mechelen and the court of France to Greenwich, the coronation and the Tower, this is the whole of Anne Boleyn’s life, told from inside it. The cold rooms and the sickbeds. The bargains made over her head. The king who would not let her go, and the court that waited, year after year, for her to fall.