The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

A historical novel from the perspective of Lucrezia de' Medici. Like Wolf Hall if Thomas Cromwell had been the teenage daughter of Cosimo de' Medici.

This book was well written and I'll miss not having it to return to each night before bed. More than once, I had the sensation of thinking I had only read a couple pages to discover I had read 15-20.

Through no fault of the book or the author, I became tired with historical fiction as a genre while reading this book. I feel surrounded by it (which probably says more about me than the world) and disappointed in myself that I need the set piece of Renaissance Italy or wherever it happens to be in order to sit still long enough to get hooked by the story.