In the opening of 'The Marriage Portrait,' Maggie O’Farrell reveals that the protagonist will be dead in less than a year, likely at her husband’s hand. See why this work of historical fiction is on TIME's list of the 100 must-read books of 2022:
Maggie O’Farrell
reveals that the protagonist—a teenage girl in late-Renaissance Italy—will be dead in less than a year, likely at her husband’s hand. Lucrezia, who’s 15 at the time of her arranged marriage to a duke, is hit with an eerie premonition about her fate, and begins to observe her husband, carefully noting the circumstances that will lead to her death. The novel—which follows O’Farrell’s 2020 hit
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