A review by hannahleebibliophile
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife by Alison Weir

5.0

Alison Weir does it again - and by “it,” I mean she successfully employs her extensive knowledge of the social, political, and deeply personal aspects of British history and uses it to combine the facts with educated guesses to fill in the remaining blanks. This book, the last in Weir’s series of historical novels on each of Henry VIII’s six wives, respectively, of course features the famous “survived” Katharine Parr. If you’re reading this book, you almost certainly know the story already, so I won’t rehash. But I will say that this piece is - among works of fiction, at least - the best example I’ve read of Weir’s uncanny ability to personalize larger-than-life, (in)famous historical figures and make them come alive for readers. I so wholeheartedly recommend this book, particularly for Tudor history nerds, that I wish there were more than five stars to grant it!