The Art of a Lie

[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