Duchess's Diary - Softcover

Chapman, Robin

 
9780950671505: Duchess's Diary

Synopsis

Maria Isabel, Duchess of Caparroso, falls in love with Cervantes and then believes herself to have been recognizably misrepresented in fiction. Her diary records her journey to despair and isolation, followed by a quest for the truth and her progress back into the world with renewed hope.

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Review

"A moving and imaginative peeling away of those dark and tragic layers which underline the shiny gloss of fiction in the course of which, almost casually but with amazing grace, Robin Chapman recreates the whole world of Cervantes's Spain."

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