by Maggie O'Farrell · Vintage Canada · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781039005655
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«The Marriage Portrait» is the historical novel by Maggie O'Farrell, published by Vintage Canada in hardcover (352 pages, in English).
Florence, 1550s. Lucrezia de' Medici, third daughter of the Grand Duke, takes the place of her deceased sister and marries Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara. In an opaque and hostile court, her only duty is to give the dynasty an heir. While posing for the portrait that will fix her image, the duchess struggles to survive an unpredictable husband.
The Marriage Portrait was published on July 11, 2023. Maggie O'Farrell is also the author of Hamnet, a novel that won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women's Prize.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, with female protagonists and Renaissance setting.
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL is an Irish-British novelist. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. O'Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloé Zhao in 2025, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.
