The Art of a Lie
10 July 2025Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful' – Abir Mukherjee, bestselling author of Hunted
The Art of a Lie is a beguiling cat-and-mouse thriller played out across the streets of 18th-century London. From The Sunday Times bestselling author of The Square of Sevens, Laura Shepherd-Robinson.
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Details
10 July 2025320 pages
9781529053753Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
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
