num_pages: 224
description: Circles of Deceit is narrated by a painter who specializes as a copyist. Major figures on the canvas are Clio, his child-bride; Helen, his first wife; and his mother Maisie. They confound lies and the truth in a subtle weave, while the silent agony of the painter's son is a poignant reflection on the busy web of deception. And as the copyist transcribes his modern versions of Old Masters, so the past keeps breaking through the surface of the present, until fact and fiction, like art and life, meet in a remarkable conclusion.
language: English
title: Circles of Deceit
titlecomplete: Circles of Deceit
genres: Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 86
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Virago