by Isabel Stilwell · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896261320
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«Catarina de Bragança» is the historical novel by Isabel Stilwell, published by A Esfera dos Livros in paperback (644 pages, in Portuguese).
It recreates the life of Catherine of Braganza, infanta of Portugal and daughter of King John IV, and her journey to England to marry Charles II. Far from Lisbon, the queen faces a new language, customs and religion, the monarch's infidelities and the pressure to produce an heir: an intimate portrait of her hopes and disappointments.
Work subtitled «A coragem de uma infanta portuguesa que se tornou rainha de Inglaterra», published in 2008.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the House of Braganza, the English Restoration and fictionalised biographies of female figures.
Maria Isabel Stilwell is a Portuguese journalist and writer. Already known in Portugal for her journalism, broadcasting, historical novels, children's books and short stories, she expanded outside of Portugal as the author of Philippa of Lancaster – English Princess, Queen of Portugal, which was first published in translation in 2015. Since then, two more of her historical novels have been translated into English.
