Out on 10 July 2025
Book cover for The Art of a Lie

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10 July 2025
480 pages
9781529053722
Imprint: Mantle

Reviews

[A] wonderfully inventive novel set in 18th-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 another
This rich, complex and haunting Dickensian epic is a triumph of the Gothic genre . . . a masterpiece
A sweeping Dickensian tour de force of a novel . . . cementing the author’s place as the queen of modern Georgian literature
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 year