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Atria/Emily Bestler Books
October 2014
On Sale: September 23, 2014
384 pages
ISBN: 1476757445
EAN: 9781476757445
Kindle: B00GEEB32U
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Women's Fiction Historical
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.
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