Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 242277Title: Beautiful LiesAuthor: Clare ClarkNarrator: Wanda McCaddonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 15:02:40Language: EnglishRelease date: 12-06-12Publisher: Penguin Books LTDGenres: Fiction & Literature, Historical FictionSummary:It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to make her own mark on the world. But her husband's outspoken views inspire enmity as well as admiration - and the wife of a member of parliament should not be hiding the kind of secrets Maribel has buried in her past. When a notorious newspaper editor begins to take an uncommon interest in her, Maribel fears he will destroy not only her husband's career but both of their reputations.Beautiful Lies is set in a Jubilee year that, fraught with economic uncertainty, riots and tabloid scandal-mongering, uncannily presages our own. Praised by Hilary Mantel as 'one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture', Clark has created a brilliant, riveting novel that illuminates both Victorian England and our own times.Contact: [email protected]

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