I had such a hard time reading this one because of the fact that it's writen with only one perspective. There is no dialogue, we are in the head of the main character and i had a hard time getting used to it.

Intrigued by a 15th century church memorial, Elliot meticulously reconstructed as a novel (told in the voice of Brome's third wife, about whom very little is known) the eventful gentry life of Nicholas Brome, Lancastrian survivor of Wars of the Roses and early Tudor Warwickshire, who married three times, gathered up a lot of real estate, made shrewd legal decisions and committed two acts of breathtaking public violence that caused him to demand to be buried standing upright under the church floor.

Interesting read. Not really a romance, but more like a fictional memoir with a marriage. I would recommend to to reader's who like historical fictional memoirs versus those readers craving a typical English romance.

This isn't the typical books I'm reading so I was a little bit hesitant about it!Once I start reading I couldn't put it down it was quiet interesting and captivating!

This was a interesting and unusual book and don’t feel I can say too much about the story as it would be giving away too much. The book is full of implied questions about mortality and the nature of sin. It is very wordy and descriptive, there isn’t much real time action happening and that for me made it quite slow going. However the story was good for the most part. I’m glad I persevered with it.
I was given a ARC by NetGalley, all opinions are my own.