Sinners by Elizabeth Fremantle (Hardback)

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9780241705162
Published:
03 Jul 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
383 pages
Dimensions:
223x143x36mm
Weight:
0.518kgs
Rome, 1599. Beatrice yearns to escape the clutches of her abusive father and determined to find a way back to Rome, enlists the help of Olimpio, the castle's keeper. Soon the love that grows between them will transform Beatrice's fortunes, for better and for worse. History has sold her short. She is no doe-eyed victim of her father's brutality, nor the cunning murderer who plotted her father's demise. No, this Beatrice - a woman pregnant by her lover, incarcerated in a remote castle by her father, and brim-full of white-hot rage - is both innocent and guilty, saint and sinner. And she will stand tall in the face of the violence of men, no matter the cost.

MURDER MOST FOUL … OR VENGEANCE MOST JUST?


An electrifying retelling from Elizabeth Fremantle - the fierce and fearless story of Beatrice Cenci: prisoner, rebel, saint… or sinner?

'An evocative tale of misplaced love and lust … A gripping read which gallops to a crescendo of an ending' Melanie Cantor

'A sensationally powerful novel with a rollercoaster of a story that has the dark logic of Greek tragedy' Andrew Taylor, bestselling author of The Ashes of London

'Fremantle never misses. Sinners is a fierce and searing feminist retelling of Beatrice Cenci's life and murder trial' Flora Carr, author of The Tower

'Dark, passionate and atmospheric, we predict another screen adaptation' Woman & Home

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In sixteenth-century Rome, Beatrice Cenci - youngest daughter of a powerful nobleman - is destined for a life of gilded insignificance. Wealth talks within the city's grand palazzos, and women must remain silent.

Then her brother is found murdered by a rival family, and Beatice's domineering, tyrannical father insists they flee to La Rocca.

But La Rocca, an ancient and forbidding fortified castle perched on a cliff, is no sanctuary. The villagers are suspicious of the newcomers, considering their arrival an ill omen. Mysterious and terrible events begin to occur within the castle walls even as Beatrice's father's paranoia grows.

Isolated and afraid, she befriends the castle's keeper, Olimpio.

Yet their secret attraction is dangerous. Were their affair to be discovered, neither might survive. And betrayal lurks behind every corner. In desperation Beatrice devises a plan, one that will see her risk everything for an even greater love . . .

Inspired by the real life of a sixteenth-century heroine, Sinners is the story of a trapped woman determined to live a free life, no matter the cost.

Because for Beatrice Cenci - saint, sinner, hunter, prey - a woman caged is a terrible thing.

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'I couldn't put this book down!' 5* Reader Review

'I was on the edge of my seat for this entire book!' 5* Reader Review

'This was one of the most powerful writing I have read in a historical novel in a while' 5* Reader Review


Praise for Elizabeth Fremantle:

'MAGICAL, THRILLING, WONDERFUL, EXCELLENT. HEARTPOUNDINGLY TENSE AND ABSOLUTELY ENGROSSING. CLEVER, AMAZING AND INSPIRING' DAILY MAIL

'Electric' Good Housekeeping

'Rich in atmosphere and period detail . . . An enticing read' Stylist

'Beautifully written and finely observed' RACHEL HORE, author of A PLACE OF SECRETS

'An enthralling tale of power and passion, loyalty and betrayal' ELIZABETH WILHIDE, author of ASHENDEN

About the Author: Elizabeth Fremantle is the critically acclaimed author of four Tudor historical novels: Firebrand (formerly Queen's Gambit), Sisters of Treason, Watch the Lady and The Girl in the Glass Tower. As E.C. Fremantle she has written two historical thrillers: The Poison Bed and The Honey and the Sting. Her most recent novel, Disobedient, is a feminist retelling of the life of seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi. She lives in London.

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