A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECTAND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England forever. ‘In many places, where once we had speculation, we now have certainty. This book is at once an education and a joy to read’ LITERARY REVIEW ‘Combines meticulously researched history and contemporary voices with narrative flair’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Anne Boleyn comes alive in this impressive study . . . Moves and informs’ THE TIMES ‘The most cogent narrative reading of the evidence to date’ SPECTATOR The story of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending just short of three years later when a husband?s passion turned to such hatred that he simply wanted his wife gone.