The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell marriage in crisis but to do so she

but to do so she must place her trust in a paper bird

Life has gone according to plan for Anna—she stays in the background

Frightened and alone

Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body

and as an adult she doesn’t believe a word of her father’s claims

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell marriage in crisis but to do so sheFlorence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father