The Art of a Lie
10 July 2025Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
'[Laura Shepherd-Robinson is] the queen of modern Georgian literature' – Susan Stokes-Chapman, bestselling author of Pandora
The Art of a Lie is a beguiling cat-and-mouse thriller played across the streets of Georgian London. From The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Square of Sevens, Laura Shepherd-Robinson.
That’s the trouble with stories, especially the ones you write for yourself. Sometimes you think they've...
Details
10 July 2025480 pages
9781529053722Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
[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
Come for the clever mystery, stay reading late into the night for the vivid, tender portrayal of a world where women are bought, sold and abused, yet fight to retain their vim and dignity. I would gamble what’s left of my virtue on Daughters of Night being the best historical crime novel I will read this yearThe Times on Daughters of Night
