The Beheading Game

An original, audacious twist on a tale we all think we know. A must-read for lovers of history, magic and revenge – Erin Kelly, the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE POISON TREEMagic, romance, revenge, and an utterly irresistible heroine - this book is an instant classic – Lev Grossman, author of BRIGHT SWORDFabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn. I loved it. – Kelly Link, author of THE BOOK OF LOVE‘In The Beheading Game, Rebecca Lehmann’s fierce and audacious imagination soars, bringing us Anne Boleyn as we have never dared to see or imagine her before. Sister, mother, wife, avenger: In Lehmann’s brilliant hands, ferocious, feminist Anne turns from hunted to hunter, from disdained to loved, a transformation that is pure poetry. Anne’s search for justice could awaken the dead and will awaken every reader from the very first page. If you have ever wanted better for Anne Boleyn, this unlikely love story is for you. – V. V. Ganeshananthan, author of the Women’s Prize-winning BROTHERLESS NIGHT

Rebecca Lehmann is an award-winning poet and essayist. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Maytag Fellow. She is the author of three collections of poetry- Between the Crackups; Ringer, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize (selected by Ross Gay); and The Sweating Sickness. Her writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, NPR’s The Slowdown, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day. She lives in Indiana with her family, where she is an associate professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Saint Mary’s College.