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The Beheading Game : A Novel.
We all know what happened to Henry VIIIs second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? An epic journey through the wilds of British royal history and a prescient reminder that mouthy women have always been punished, 'The Beheading Game' is debut novel that finally allows one of historys most maligned women a chance to tell her side of the story.
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- ISBN: 9798217086481
- Physical Description: 320 pages ; 2 x 15 cm
- Publisher: Canada : Crown, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | FICTION / Alternative History FICTION / Historical / Renaissance FICTION / Magical Realism |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . .
We all know what happened to Henry VIIIâs second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice?
âFabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn. I loved it.ââKelly Link, author of The Book of Love
âNobody was surprised at Anneâs conviction. The world loves to put a woman in her place.â
The Beheading Game begins in the hours after Anne Boleynâs beheading, when she wakes to find herself unceremoniously laid to rest in a makeshift coffin, her head wrapped in linen at her knees. Discarded by King Henry VIII for being unable to give him a male heir and reviled by Cromwell for being too smart for her own good, she was ultimately executed based on trumped-up charges of adultery, incest, and high treason.
Anne escapes the Tower of London, sews her head back on, then sets out on a quest to kill Henry VIII before he can marry her own lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour. The stakes are highâif Jane gives birth to a rival heir, Anneâs daughter, Elizabeth, will lose her claim to the throne. Traveling the streets of London in the guise of a commoner, with the help of a prostitute who becomes a trusted friend (and perhaps something more), Anne soon realizes how little she knew about life in the real world.
A fantastical journey through the wilds of England and Tudor history, filled with danger and magic and steeped in Arthurian legend, The Beheading Game is a prescient reminder that âmouthyâ women have always been punished. Now, thanks to debut novelist Rebecca Lehmann, nearly five hundred years after Anne Boleynâs death, one of historyâs most maligned women finally has the chance to tell her story.
