Clare Hall Book Club

Join the College’s Book Club as they discuss The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (2022).

Maggie O’Farrell’s latest novel The Marriage Portrait, is a fictional take on Lucrezia de´Medici partially based on Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess, which could be read alongside. This is a new novel from the author of Hamnet, which was the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller (2021) and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020.

“The Marriage Portrait is a dazzling evocation of the Italian Renaissance in all its beauty and brutality”. (The Guardian).

All College members are welcome to attend in-person, meeting in Clare Hall’s Meeting Room, or via Zoom. If you are not on the mailing list and would like to be, please send an email to gloria.carnevali@icloud.com, confirming your Clare Hall connection and putting the following as the email title: I would like to join the Book Club mailing list.

Learn more about the Book Club on this page.

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