Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl
The novel charts the lives of Anne Boleyn, and her sister Mary, thought to be the mistress of Henry VIII before Anne.
Each
in their turn are "the other Boleyn Girl", pawns of their fiercely
ambitious, conniving family who in the novel use the girls to advance
their own positions at the court of Henry VIII.
Philippa
Gregory will be talking about her fascination with Anne Boleyn's lesser
known sister and about the lines between working with fact and fiction;
and how she drew on her research to create the claustrophobic detail of
palace life in Tudor England.
Philippa Gregory
depicts Mary, aged just 13, as little more than a child when she is
presented to Henry and ordered by her family to serve her King and
country by becoming his mistress.
Inevitably
though, the King's eyes soon begin to wander and Mary is overlooked,
helpless to do anything but aid her family's plot to advance their
fortunes, replace her with Anne and give Henry the greatest gift of all:
a son and heir.
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