HENRY

By Caroline Wray

HENRY is Wolf Hall meets The Bachelor meets Cleopatra and Frankenstein told with the immersive, page-turning scope of Demon Copperhead. Stylized and kaleidoscopic and oh-so-very alive, it has the swagger of the musical Six and a verve all of its own.

What does it mean to love – and leave – a Henry? How can we become the main character in our own lives when we’re cast opposite the anointed star?

Walk with six extraordinary women, in two braided timelines, as they annotate one man’s life from first love to deathbed. The women orbit one another, a constellation of feminine power, connected not only through Henry himself but also by their quests to live fully realized lives.

Set between New Orleans, New York, Mississippi and an English country castle (home to a reality TV dating show), HENRY is a rich work of social observation, historical reinvention, and electrifying storytelling.

Format: Hardback
Release Date: 28 Jan 2027
Pages: 368
Price: £18.99, £18.99 (Export Price) , €None

Caroline Wrayhas taught creative writing as a junior lecturer at Johns Hopkins and was formerly an editorial assistant at Henry Holt and Crown. She began her research into the wives of Henry VIII a decade ago, with that material taking shape into these characters about four years ago. She grew up in Atlanta and received her BA in English from Yale and her fiction MFA from Johns Hopkins, where she won the Benjamin Sankey fellowship. Her short fiction has appeared inGulf Coast, and she is also at work on her second book, centred around the concept of the muse.

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