The Sixth Wife

<p>A gripping novel of love passion betrayal and heartbreak. Katherine Parr survived Henry VIII to find true love with Thomas Seymour – only to realise that her love was based on a lie.</p> <p>Clever sensible and well-liked Katherine Parr trod a knife edge of diplomacy and risk during her marriage to an ageing cantankerous King Henry. When he died she was in her late thirties and love it seemed had passed her by. Until that is the popular Thomas Seymour – bold handsome witty and irresistible – began a relentless courtship that won her heart. Kate fell passionately in love for the first time in her life and also for the first time threw caution to the wind with a marriage that shocked the worldly courtiers around her.</p> <p>But all too soon it becomes obvious that Thomas has plans beyond his marriage for the young capricious quick-witted heir to the throne – Elizabeth – and that in his quest for power he might even be prepared to betray his now pregnant wife…</p> <p>Kate's whirlwind romance is witnessed and recounted by her closest friend Catherine Duchess of Suffolk who lives through the tumultuous years after Henry's death at Kate's side. A sharp and canny courtier in her own right Cathy is keenly aware of the political realities of life at court and is apparently a loyal supporter of her friend. As her story weaves its way through that of Kate and Thomas's heady passion and tragic denouement however it gradually becomes clear that Cathy has her own tale of betrayal and regret to tell…</p>