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It is 1887 and London is in turmoil. Grand celebrations are planned for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee but poverty unemployment and Irish terrorism mean strikes riots and bomb plots. Maribel Campbell Lowe the beautiful Chilean wife of an aristocratic Liberal MP is determined to ignore the troubles and make a name for herself as an artist. But all is not as it seems. As her husband's hunger for justice drives him towards clashes with his Party and even more dangerously with the police Maribel finds her past returning to haunt her. She dreads exposure but her worst fear seems inevitable when the notorious investigative journalist Alfred Webster starts to take an uncommon interest in her. Clare Clark's brilliant new novel is set in a London that uncannily presages our own: a Jubilee year marked by economic crisis and riots presided over by a scandal-mongering popular press. Hilary Mantel has said that Clark is 'one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture.' Through a riveting story of idealism pragmatism and love Beautiful Lies transports us so powerfully into late-nineteenth-century London we can almost taste the soot in the air.Read More

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  • TheBookPeople

    It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to make her own mark on the world. But her husband's outspoken views inspire enmity as well as admiration - and the wife of a member of parliament should not be hiding the kind of secrets Maribel has buried in her past. When a notorious newspaper editor begins to take an uncommon interest in her, Maribel fears he will destroy not only her husband's career but both of their reputations. Beautiful Lies is set in a Jubilee year that, fraught with economic uncertainty, riots and tabloid scandal-mongering, uncannily presages our own. Praised by Hilary Mantel as 'one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture', Clark has created a brilliant, riveting novel that illuminates both Victorian England and our own times.

  • Waterstones

    It is 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to make her own mark on the world. When a notorious newspaper editor begins to take an uncommon interest in her, Maribel fears he w

  • 1846556058
  • 9781846556050
  • Clare Clark
  • 7 June 2012
  • Harvill Secker
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 512
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