Sarah Bower

Sins of the House of Borgia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expel the Jews from Spain, six year old Esther Sarfati finds herself travelling to Rome to join her father, a successful banker who has helped his fellow Spaniard, Rodrigo Borgia, finance his bid for the Papacy. Nine years later, as Pope Alexander VI, he repays the favour by offering Esther a place in the household of his daughter, Lucrezia, who is about to marry Alfonso d'Este, heir to the Duchy of Ferrara. Against her own better judgement, but in accordance with her father's wishes for her future, the re-named Violante converts to Christianity and enters Lucrezia's service as lady-in-waiting. Flattered by Lucrezia's favour, seduced by the friendship of her cousin, Angela Borgia and swept off her feet by Lucrezia's glamorous and dangerous brother, Cesare, she is drawn into a web of intrigue and deceit which will test her heart to its utmost and burden her with secrets she must carry to her grave. Set against the glittering background of the court of Ferrara in the early sixteenth century, this is the heart-breaking story of what happens to an innocent abroad in the world of the Borgias.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bello
• Seitenzahl: 578
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 972g
• ISBN-13: 9781447229988
• ISBN-10: 1447229983
• Artikelnr.: 40457365

Autorenporträt

Sarah Bower is a writer of novels, short fiction and creative non-fiction with a Creative Writing MA from the University of East Anglia. She was shortlisted for the Curtis Brown Scholarship in 2001.The Needle in the Blood is her first novel, which won the Susan Hill Award in 2007 and was shortlisted for a Romantic Times award. It was excerpted for an edition of Radio 3's The Verb which featured the UEA Creative Writing MA. Sarah's second novel, The Book of Love (published in the US as Sins of the House of Borgia) has been translated into nine languages and was a Toronto Globe and Mail bestseller. A third novel, Erosion, was published in 2014.Her novella, Lines and Shadows, is out now with Story Machine Press.Sarah has contributed to anthologies and been published in Asian Cha, The Lighthouse Literary Journal, QWF Magazine, MsLexia, Spiked, Solander, The Yellow Room, Unthology and Writing in Education, and has been commissioned to write short fiction for BBC Radio 4. Sarah's work has also been performed on Radio 3's The Verb.Sarah contributes to the Historical Novels Review, the journal of the Historical Novel Society, which she edited for two years.Sarah began reading for a PhD in creative and critical writing at the Open University in 2020. The novel she is writing for her PhD is entitled Daughters of Heaven and looks at the contribution of women needleworkers to the hot air balloon craze of the 1780s and the manufacture of spacesuits for the Apollo astronauts in the late 1960s.Sarah teaches creative writing at third year undergraduate and masters level at the Open University and works as a mentor to fellow novelists through The Literary Consultancy's Chapter and Verse programme. She also works as a freelance workshop leader, most recently for the National Centre for Writing and Anglia Ruskin University's A Life Written project, facilitating memoir writing for the over seventies. For ten years she administered the Emerging Literary Translators' Mentoring Scheme founded by Daniel Hahn in 2010. She is also currently working on an Arts Council funded project entitled 'You Are A Writer', on a handbook for creative writing for people in prison.