TY - BOOK AU - Elizabeth Fremantle TI - FIREBRAND SN - 9781405965842 U1 - F PY - 2024////01/01 CY - UK PB - Penguin Books KW - Fiction KW - Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548 Fiction KW - Cours et courtisans Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - Courts and courtiers Fiction KW - Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Fiction KW - Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1509-1547 (Henri VIII) Romans, nouvelles, etc N1 - Now a major motion picture, Firebrand shows the tumultuous darker side to the marriages of the notorious King of England, Henry VIII, and the wife who survived. Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr falls deeply for the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour and hopes at last to marry for love. Instead, she attracts the amorous attentions of the ailing, egotistical, and dangerously powerful Henry VIII. No one is able to refuse a royal proposal. Haunted by the fates of his previous wives—two executions, two annulments, one death in childbirth—Katherine must wed Henry and rely on her wits and the help of her loyal servant Dot to survive the treacherous pitfalls of life as Henry’s queen. Yet as she treads the razor’s edge of court intrigue, she never quite gives up on love ER -