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Complete Tue, Feb 4, 2014<5 mins
By Grace Tiffany (Bagwyn Books, 2013)
Book Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR_0OUQb1Yc&list=PL1DPVmX45pVzZ7lTBNu98wk1uNPqI05N1&index=4
Emilia Bassano is only a teenager when she's pitched among the poets, politicians, and painted women of the Elizabethan court. Withdrawn and pensive by nature, she devises a remarkable strategy to preserve her own solitude. At first it works. But she's soon shocked to find that, so far from truly hiding, she's attracted the gaze of every courtier and aspiring poet on the scene, including the canniest, hungriest, and strangest one of them all.
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