Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Beautiful Lies by Clare Clark (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! · In her new novel, “Beautiful Lies,” Clark leaves behind the swamps of the New World and returns to Victorian Britain — and she does so with panache. Her central character, Maribel Campbell Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. A well-rendered novel of extraordinary lives in Victorian London. Bodices are ripped, to be sure, but Clark (Savage Lands, , etc.) offers much more than a genre romance with her tale of the darkly beautiful Maribel Campbell Lowe, of whom we learn, early on, “Mrs. Campbell Lowe is from Chile where llamas really live and therefore, unlike a little English girl, knows exactly how to say it.
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 Clare Clark reveals the real-life inspiration behind her new novel about a Victorian politician's wife embroiled in scandal, Beautiful Lies. This information about Beautiful Lies shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of.
Praise for Clare Clark: "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 "As a storyteller, Clark is endowed with verve and intelligence, but her larger gift, dazzlingly in evidence throughout both her fine novels, lies in the originality of her imagination. In her new novel, “Beautiful Lies,” Clark leaves behind the swamps of the New World and returns to Victorian Britain — and she does so with panache. Her central character, Maribel Campbell. 'Beautiful Lies' is a work of literary/historical fiction that chronicles the private life of Maribel Campbell Lowe, her family's hidden past, and a scandalous newspaper editor that threatens to destroy Maribel and her husband. Clark did an impeccable job with this novel.
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