The Serpent Garden - Judith Merkle Riley (58 page)
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1996 by Judith Merkle Riley
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Three Rivers Press and the Tugboat design are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books (USA) Inc., New York, in 1996.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Riley, Judith Merkle.
The serpent garden: a novel / Judith Merkle Riley.—1st pbk. ed.
p. cm.
1. Women artists—Fiction. 2. Angels—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—History—Henry VIII, 1509–1547—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.I3794S47 2008
813'.54—dc22
2007027619
eISBN: 978-0-307-41011-5
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