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Author's name: Maggie O'Farrell

This is the reason for their sudden journey to this remote and desolate place. He brought her here, to this stone castle, to kill her. With captivating style and language brimming with emotion and detail, Maggie O'Farrell paints a portrait of a young duchess, blending reality with fantasy.

Maggie O'Farrell's new masterpiece takes us to the heart of Renaissance Italy, telling us, with her poetic sensibility and deep understanding of the human psyche, the story of a young duchess whose fate is predetermined and known from the first page.

Lucrezia de' Medici lived a marginalized life in her father the Grand Duke's palace, painting, dreaming, and occasionally rebelling in her own way, in a society that expected nothing but submission from women. When her older sister died before her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, everyone found a ready-made solution: Lucrezia would take her place. And so, barely out of childhood, she was forced into a marriage she did not choose. In the Ferrara palace, Lucrezia realized she had entered a strange world, where customs were mysterious, faces were suspicious, and her husband wanted to kill her! But beneath the surface lay a hidden picture, or rather, hidden pictures. In this novel, we will unveil them.