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Whan Claude Wooldridge, a mildy shady antique dealer who has acquired an antiquarian bookshop, discovers a cache of old letters, it starts him on a trail that ends with him alone in a crumbling Neopolitan palazzo, his marriage in ruins, his career abandoned, planning his suicide. For the letters seem to reveal the possible whereabouts of the legendary memoirs of Lord Byron, the great lost treasure of English literature. The further Wooldridge travels in their pursuit, the harder it becomes for him - and the reader - to distinguish between what is real and what is fake.
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Claude Wooldridge, a mildly shady antique dealer, discovers a cache of old letters concerning Lord Byron. This sets Wooldridge on the trail of the poet's most sensational secret, but the further he travels in its pursuit, the harder it becomes for him to distinguish between the real and the fake.
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Louis Buss was born in 1963. He studied politics at Durham University and until recently, worked as a teacher. The Luxury of Exile is his first novel and won the 1996 Betty Trask award.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 022404317X
- ISBN 13 9780224043175
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