Author talk with Wendy Holden about her novel 'The Queen's Painter', followed by a Q&A, with tea, coffee and scones.
Wendy Holden is coming to The Museum of Making on Friday 13 November, as part of the Autumn Derby Book Festival. It's an afternoon around her latest novel, The Queen's Painter, and it starts with tea, coffee and scones served at the beginning, so you've got something to eat and drink while you settle in.
The book takes a new look at the Anne Boleyn story, told through the eyes of the Tudor court artist Hans Holbein. When the young Holbein arrives at court, Anne is among his first patrons; heartbroken and enraged when she is beheaded, he joins forces with the poet and diplomat Thomas Wyatt, who is agonised at his own unwitting part in her tragedy. The two vow revenge on the man they blame for her downfall, Thomas Cromwell. Their opportunity arrives when Henry VIII seeks a fourth wife and Cromwell sends them across Europe to find and paint a new bride. Tracy Borman described it as "as exquisitely-rendered as a Holbein masterpiece" and the Daily Mail called it "brimful of sumptuous details", and the story reimagines a familiar tragedy as a revenge quest.
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On the day, Holden will be in conversation with Festival Trustee Sue Wall, with a Q&A to follow, so there's a chance to ask questions after she's talked through the book. It runs from 2:30pm to 4:00pm at the Museum of Making on Silk Mill Lane, DE1 3AF, and tickets are £20, which includes the tea, coffee and scone with cream and jam.
