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Juliet's Nurse

Juliet's Nurse

by Lois Leveen
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/04/2015

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An enthralling new telling of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"--told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse.
In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the Cappellettis' darkest secrets. Those secrets--and the nurse's deep personal grief--erupt across five momentous days of love and loss that destroy a daughter, and a family.
By turns sensual, tragic, and comic, "Juliet's Nurse" gives voice to one of literature's most memorable and distinctive characters, a woman who was both insider and outsider among Verona's wealthy ruling class. Exploring the romance and intrigue of interwoven loyalties, rivalries, jealousies, and losses only hinted at in Shakespeare's play, this is a never-before-heard tale of the deepest love in Verona--the love between a grieving woman and the precious child of her heart.
In the tradition of Sarah Dunant, Philippa Gregory, and Geraldine Brooks, "Juliet's Nurse "is a rich prequel that reimagines the world's most cherished tale of love and loss, suffering and survival.
ISBN:
9781410477552
9781410477552
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-04-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cengage Gale
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
218.44x144.78x27.94mm

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