The April Club Report
Last month’s choice was Amenable Women by Mavis Cheek.
Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new found freedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had begun. A reference to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife who he rejected for being ugly, captures her imagination as she begins to delve deeper into the life of this neglected figure. Meanwhile, in the Louvre, Holbein's portrait of Anne of Cleves senses the tug of a connection and she begins to tell the story of the injustices she suffered and just how she survived her marriage...
The group found the story compelling, well and succinctly written and deeply moving.
The writer’s highly original ploy of the portraits of all these famous Queens conversing with each other in a gallery was particularly admired.
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