Amenable Women

Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her husband dies in abizarre ballooning accident. Seizing upon her new foundfreedom, she decides to finish the history of their village that Edward had begun. A reference to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife who he rejected for being ugly, captures her imagination as she begins to delve deeper into the life of this neglected figure. Meanwhile, in the Louvre, Holbein's portrait of Anne of Cleves senses the tug of a connection and shebegins to tell the story of the injustices she suffered and just how she survived her marriage. A fascinating tale of Sisterhood and Survival.