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Katherine Howard was Henry VIII's fifth wife. She was perhaps the most seductive of his wives and a considerable contrast to her predecessor, Anna of Cleves. She's been consigned to history as a silly girl, but careful reading gives the lie to this. Suzannah Dunn begins her story when Cathryn Katherine was twelve years old and went to live in her step-grandmother's household. There she met Catherine Cathryn – generally known as Cat – Tilney, but the two girls were very different and didn't hit it off initially. Cat was quietly ambitious, aware that she needed to make a good marriage, whilst Catherine Katherine was image-conscious and very interested in the boys.
When I began reading ''The Confession of Katherine Howard'' my immediate reaction was that there was nothing new. Her story might not be quite so well known as that of her cousin, Anne Boleyn, but if you have any interest in Tudor history you'll know that she met her executioner before she'd been Queen for many months. But as I read I realised that the joy of this book lies in the way that Suzannah Dunn can capture Tudor life -from the whiles of the Court right down to the way that the less wealthy lived.
