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Book Description
'One freezing April morning, two veiled women step off the boat from Holland. They are on the run: a scheming French aristocrat, who goes by her nom de plume of Mrs Fox, and her loyal maidservant. With only a handful of gold and fearing for her life, Mrs Fox sets about establishing herslf with high Continue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Lady into urban fox
This is a thoroughly rotten book, a squelchingly well-researched period piece with sex, lust, over-ripeness and what one character calls the ‘odour’ of the scholar permeating every paragraph. It is also, let me quickly add, a remarkable tour de force ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Book Details
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780316729284 | Hardcover | $24.13 | -- | The Book Depository |
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The poke and snuffle of 1784
A Factory of Cunning by Philippa Stockley 362pp, Little, Brown, £14.99 Drawing the past is one thing, but smelling, touching, scratching and shitting it is quite another. In this fabulously accomplished novel - her second - Philippa Stockley doesn't ... (read full critics)