She's a stunner 🐅 We love the independent bookshop edition of Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait, with its gorgeous dust jacket, exclusive tiger-embossed boards, and stunning serpent endpapers. The content is just as good. The author of Hamnet returns with a superbly atmospheric historical novel. A masterclass in tension, The Marriage Portrait follows Lucrezia de Medici, the overlooked third daughter of one of history's most powerful families. Married against her will to the Duke of Ferrera, Lucrezia becomes increasingly convinced that her new husband is planning to kill her, as the plot gets darker and more disturbing. O'Farrell has written a stylish historical thriller with atmosphere to rival Hilary Mantel and tension akin to Sarah Moss, and it's got a stunner of a cover. Order online now for collection or delivery or pop by our bookshop/wine bar at 166 Blackstock Road, London.