Bill Kaghan’s Reviews > The Marriage Portrait > Status Update

I had read Maggie O'Farrell's novel "Hamnet" a couple of years ago and enjoyed it very much. Based on that experience, I decided to read this earlier novel. "The Marriage Portrait" - set in Renaissance Italy - is the story of the teenage Lucrezia De Medici's - the subject of an existing marriage portrait - tragic marriage. I enjoyed this book but liked "Hamnet" better.