The Art of a Lie

Told with authority and panache, [Laura] Shepherd-Robinson takes us on a breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl through the Georgian London of the striving middle classes and those who would prey upon them. A woman fighting for her future, murder, romance, deception – and the best desserts in town – this book has it all. MasterfulAbir Mukherjee, bestselling author of Hunted

[A] wonderfully inventive novel set in eighteenth-century England. As the heroine and narrator Red seeks the truth about her origins and possible connection to the wealthy De Lacy family, the reader’s expectations are constantly confounded with one twist in her tale after anotherThe Sunday Times on The Square of Sevens

This rich, complex and haunting Dickensian epic is a triumph of the Gothic genre . . . A masterpieceJanice Hallett, betselling author of The Appeal, on The Square of Sevens

A sweeping Dickensian tour de force of a novel . . . cementing the author’s place as the queen of modern Georgian literatureSusan Stokes-Chapman, bestselling author of Pandora, on The Square of Sevens