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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
From the author of Slammerkin, a gripping historical novel about three famous Londoners - an artist, an actress and an aristocrat - based on a true scandal of 18th century London.
A love story. A gamble. A battle. Let the games begin.
It's an era of looming war, and the erosion of freedom in the name of national security. A time of high art and big business, trashy spectacles and financial disasters. Celebrities are hounded by journalists, who serve up private passions alongside public crises. Marriages stretch or break, and so do friendships; political liaisons prove as dangerous as erotic ones. In Parliament, on stage, in the bedroom, at the race track, round the dinner table, old loyalties are wrenched by the winds of change. The World - as elite calls itself - is fighting to survive these chaotic times.
Praise for Life Mask
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She. . . makes interesting parallels between the political concerns of the 1790s and those of today - Guardian
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A born writer - New York Times Book Review
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. . . another bright, bruising slice of eighteenth-century life in London . . . Why should Michel Faber hog the glory? - Elle
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Donoghue's latest book pulsates with the vibrancy of London in an era that couldn't be more extravagant. While Mad King George was teetering on the throne, the grotesquely privileged carried on a gaudy social whirl - Time Out
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She. . . makes interesting parallels between the political concerns of the 1790s and those of today - Guardian
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A born writer - New York Times Book Review
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. . . another bright, bruising slice of eighteenth-century life in London . . . Why should Michel Faber hog the glory? - Elle
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Donoghue's latest book pulsates with the vibrancy of London in an era that couldn't be more extravagant. While Mad King George was teetering on the throne, the grotesquely privileged carried on a gaudy social whirl - Time Out
Emma Donoghue
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an award-winning writer, living in Canada with her family. Her novels are Room, The Sealed Letter, Landing, Life Mask, Slammerkin, Hood and Stir-fry; short-story collections Astray, Three and a Half Deaths (UK ebook), Touchy Subjects, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, and Kissing the Witch; and literary history including Inseparable, We Are Michael Field, and Passions Between Women as well as two anthologies that span the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Frog Music, her new novel, comes out in Spring 2014.
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