HUNTING THE FALCON

A TLS TIMES PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever In many places where once we had speculation we now have certainty This book is at once an education and a joy to read LITERARY REVIEW Combines meticulously researched history and contemporary voices with narrative flair SUNDAY TIMES Anne Boleyn comes alive in this impressive study Moves and informs THE TIMES The most cogent narrative reading of the evidence to date SPECTATORThe story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation ending just short of three years later when a husband s passion turned to such hatred that he simply wanted his wife gone In Hunting the Falcon John Guy and Julia Fox examine the most recent archival discoveries and peel back layers of historical myth to present Anne and Henry in startlingly new ways They show how Anne and Henry s relationship was tied almost completely to the major events of international politics at one of the great turning points of European history and dispel any assumptions that a sixteenth century woman even a que