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by Clare Clark (Author)
"Beautiful Lies is set in Victorian Britain; at its center is Maribel Campbell Lowe, the wife of a Scottish M.P. and a self-proclaimed Chilean heiress. But Maribel's life is based on a web of lies, and a newspaperman's uncommon interest in her could prove disastrous" --New York Times Book Review
London 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. 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 ask pointed questions, she fears he will not only destroy Edward's career but both of their reputations.Back Jacket
Clare Clark s fiction manages to maintain historical accuracy even as it indulges in great storytelling and lush prose . . . A captivating fable of truth and memory, Beautiful Lies speaks to us quietly yet with strength. New York Times Book Review
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.
Beautiful Lies presents us with a couple who would surely be counted among our Beautiful People today . . . The whole novel is carefully constructed and full of wonderful details about the period. You can see that the Victorian Age is a mirror image of our own. And Edward and Maribel are touching, funny, brave, and sweet. Washington Post
[Clark] is one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture. Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
CLARE CLARK is the author of three highly acclaimed historical novels: The Great Stink, Savage Lands (both longlisted for the Orange Prize), and The Nature of Monsters. She writes regularly for the New York Times and the Washington Post and lives in London.
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