The Lambs of London - Hardcover

Ackroyd, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385514611 ISBN 13: 9780385514613

Publisher: Doubleday, 2006

Synopsis

Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller’s son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book — it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man.

In The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father, and no one knows quite what to believe. Ingenious and vividly alive, The Lambs of London is a poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit.
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Review:

"An erudite, gripping tale." (Metro)

"As clear and vivid as any work of Mr Ackroyd" (The Economist)

"I couldn't put it down and didn't want to" (Gyles Brandreth, Sunday Telegraph)

From the Publisher:

A tour de force in the tradition of Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton, a gripping novel of betrayal and deceit set in the teeming streets of nineteenth-century London

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0385514611
• ISBN 13: 9780385514613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 213