Beautiful lies
By: Clare Clark
Publisher: Harvill Secker; Harvill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781846556050
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: London is in turmoil. Celebrations are planned for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, but poverty, unemployment and Irish terrorism mean strikes, riots and bombs. Maribel Campbell Lowe, the Chilean wife of an MP, is determined to ignore the troubles and make a name for herself as an artist. But all is not as it seems.