Bathsheba

Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah who becomes a wife of King David and the mother of Solomon. Her story links David’s abuse of royal power to the succession struggle in which she helps secure Solomon’s place on the throne.

Geraldine Brooks’s The Secret Chord places Bathsheba within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, crime, espionage and covert power, and court politics and dynastic power.