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The Phantom Tree

by Nicola Cornick
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"There is much to enjoy in this sumptuous novel."—Sunday Mirror
"My name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another."
Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary...more than four hundred years ago.
The painting of Mary is more than just a beautiful object for Alison—it holds the key to her past life, the unlocking of the mystery surrounding Mary's disappearance and how Alison can get back to her own time. To when she and Mary were childhood enemies yet shared a pact that now, finally, must be fulfilled, no matter the cost.
Bestselling author of House of Shadows Nicola Cornick offers a provocative alternate history of rivals, secrets and danger, set in a time when a woman's destiny was determined by the politics of men and luck of birth. A spellbinding tale for fans of Kate Morton, Philippa Gregory and Barbara Erskine.

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    August 21, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781488028588
      • File size: 1042 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781488028588
      • File size: 1042 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      July 1, 2018
      A young woman from Elizabethan England becomes trapped in the present in Cornick's (House of Shadows, 2017, etc.) historical fantasy.Though she looks like hundreds of other London professionals, Alison Bannister is not like other women. Originally born and raised more than four centuries ago, she accidentally found her way through time when she was trying to escape the aftermath of a scandalous love affair. At first, she could move back and forth with ease, but then, just when she was planning to bring her illegitimate child from the past into the future, she was crushed to discover that she could no longer find her way back to the 1500s. For 10 years she created a 21st-century life for herself, but she continues to mourn for her lost child and to look for ways to travel back through time. When she stumbles across a painting that is being touted as a newly discovered portrait of Anne Boleyn, she recognizes that the portrait's subject is in fact Mary Seymour, daughter of Queen Katherine Parr and the traitor Thomas Seymour. She and Mary had spent time together at Wolf Hall in the past, and when Alison left, she made Mary promise to find out the whereabouts of her son and leave her a message. The portrait clearly contains the information she seeks, but how will she convince Adam, her ex-boyfriend and the "authenticator" of the painting, that he has the wrong subject--and that she needs his help for a seemingly impossible quest? Cornick alternates chapters between Alison's perspective in the present day and Mary's voice from the 1500s. The lessons learned are somewhat trite and the romance a bit generic, but the original premise keeps the reader guessing.Cornick takes a little-known historical figure, Mary Seymour, and crafts a creative and layered narrative around her life and times.

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