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Rome, 1599. A young noblewoman is reduced to killing her father to escape his cruel treatment. By the time she is executed, she will have captured the hearts and sympathy of all Rome... This is the true and tragic tale of Beatrice Cenci. History has sold her short. She is no doe-eyed victim of her father's brutality, nor the cunning murderer who plotted her father's demise. No, this Beatrice - a woman pregnant by her lover, incarcerated in a remote castle by her father, and brim-full of white-hot rage - is both innocent and guilty, saint and sinner. And she will stand tall in the face of the violence of men, no matter the cost.…mehr

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Rome, 1599. A young noblewoman is reduced to killing her father to escape his cruel treatment. By the time she is executed, she will have captured the hearts and sympathy of all Rome... This is the true and tragic tale of Beatrice Cenci. History has sold her short. She is no doe-eyed victim of her father's brutality, nor the cunning murderer who plotted her father's demise. No, this Beatrice - a woman pregnant by her lover, incarcerated in a remote castle by her father, and brim-full of white-hot rage - is both innocent and guilty, saint and sinner. And she will stand tall in the face of the violence of men, no matter the cost.
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Autorenporträt
Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels: Firebrand (formerly Queen's Gambit), Sisters of Treason , Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. As E.C. Fremantle she has written two historical thrillers: The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Her most recent novel, Disobedient, is a feminist retelling of the life of seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. She lives in London.