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The bestselling author of Slammerkin vividly brings to life the Beau
Monde of late eighteenth-century England, turning the private drama of
three celebrated Londoners into a robust, full-bodied portrait of a
world on the brink of revolution. In a time of looming war, of
glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals of
the Whig Party work to topple a tyrannical prime minister and a lunatic
king. Marriages and friendships stretch or break; political liaisons
prove as dangerous as erotic ones; and everyone wears a mask. Will Eliza
Farren, England's leading comedic actress, gain entry to that elite
circle that calls itself the World? Can Lord Derby, the inventor of the
horse race that bears his name, endure public mockery of his long,
unconsummated courtship of the actress? Will Anne Damer, a sculptor and
rumored Sapphist, be the cause of Eliza's fall from grace?
This is a remakable novel in the tradition of the very best historical fiction.
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