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I am the queen of two crowns banished fifteen years the famed and gilded woman badluck baleful girl mother of three small animals now gone I am fiftyfive years old I am Lears wife I am here Word has come Carebent King Lear is dead driven mad and betrayed His three daughters too broken in battle But someone has survived Lears queen exiled to a nunnery years ago written out of history her name forgotten Now she can tell her story Though her grief and rage may threaten to crack the earth open she knows she must seek answers Why was she sent away in shame and disgrace What has happened to Kent her oldest friend and ally And what will become of her now in this place of women To find peace she must reckon with her past and make a terrible choiceone upon which her destiny and that of the entire abbey rests Giving unforgettable voice to a woman whose absence has been a tantalizing mystery Learwife is a breathtaking novel of loss and renewal about how history bleeds into the present
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