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Metafiction • Tudor history • historical mystery

Two women. Two eras. One search for truth after betrayal.

Shades of Yellow follows Lucy Ellis as she writes about Amy Robsart while confronting illness, grief, and the collapse of her marriage, letting Tudor history echo through a deeply personal modern story.

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Author

Wendy J. Dunn

Publisher

Other Terrain Press

Format

Ebook and paperback editions listed online

Story focus

Lucy Ellis, Amy Robsart, writing, betrayal, forgiveness

What this novel is

A modern woman in crisis

Lucy Ellis is a writer recovering from cancer and a marriage broken by infidelity. As her health wavers, she becomes determined to finish the novel she is writing before time runs out.

A Tudor shadow returns

Lucy’s book centers on Amy Robsart, the wife of Robert Dudley, whose death remains one of the most haunting mysteries of Elizabethan history. The result is a layered novel where research, memory, and imagination keep crossing each other.

Why readers stay with it

Betrayal

Personal rupture in Lucy’s present mirrors the precarious emotional and political ground beneath Amy Robsart’s life.

Metafiction

The novel does not only tell a story from the past; it reveals the making of that story and the cost of telling it.

Tudor resonance

Amy Robsart is not background colour. Her mystery becomes the emotional and historical counterpoint to Lucy’s struggle.

Publisher description

‘A touching story of love, betrayal, and women’s lives across centuries.’

Reader guide

These answers help the page function well for discovery engines, book clubs, and readers deciding whether the novel matches their tastes.

Is Shades of Yellow historical fiction?

Yes, but not in a narrow sense. It combines a contemporary narrative with an embedded Tudor story about Amy Robsart, making it both historical fiction and a novel about writing historical fiction.

Who is this book for?

It suits readers who enjoy Tudor history, dual-timeline or layered narratives, women-centered fiction, and novels that blur the boundary between research, imagination, and lived experience.

Why does Amy Robsart matter here?

Amy represents one of the shadows of history the novel seeks to voice. Her unresolved death deepens the mystery and reflects Lucy’s own attempt to make meaning from betrayal and fear.

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