Beautiful Lies - Hardcover

Clark, Clare

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151014671 ISBN 13: 9780151014675

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

Synopsis

“A stirring and seductive novel.”—Economist

London 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. A self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new art of photography. But it is soon plain that Maribel’s choices are not so simple. As her husband’s career hangs by a thread, her real past, and the family she abandoned, come back to haunt them both. When the notorious newspaper editor Alfred Webster begins to take an uncommon interest in Maribel, she fears he will not only destroy Edward’s career but both of their reputations.

Inspired by the true story of a politician’s wife who lived a double life for decades, Beautiful Lies is set in a time that, fraught with economic uncertainty and tabloid scandal-mongering, uncannily presages our own.

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Review:

"A captivating fable of truth and memory" (New York Times)

"A shining example of historical literary fiction... Nothing less than literary pyrotechnics...a dazzingly elegant novel steeped in the rich detail of the period" (Lucy Scholes Independent)

"Clare Clark is one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture" (Hilary Mantel)

"A stirring and seductive novel" (The Economist)

"[A] beautifully crafted piece of Victoriana...a satisfying blend of period melodrama and psychological sharpness" (Adrian Turpin Financial Times)

Book Description:

London, 1887. In a momentous year dogged by economic crisis, riots and a voracious press hungry for scandal - how can one MP's wife bury the truth about her past?

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0151014671
• ISBN 13: 9780151014675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 500