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Life Mask

By Emma Donoghue

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| Paperback | 9781844081752

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The bestselling author of Slammerkin turns her attention to the Beau Monde of late eighteenth-century England, turning the private drama of three celebrated Londoners into a robust, full-bodied portrait of a world, and lives, on the brink of revolution. The Honourable Mrs. Damer is a young widow of Continue

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Life Mask by Emma Donoghue 368pp, Virago, £14.99 Emma Donoghue's last novel, Slammerkin, was set in the low circles of servants and prostitutes in 1760s London. In Life Mask she advances a couple of decades and up many rungs of the social ladder to p ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Life Mask By Emma Donoghue

Usually it's the diva author who breezes in late for an interview. This time it's the interviewer, offering a multitude of apologies, who calls 40 minutes late. In the face of myriad technical difficulties, Irish novelist Emma Donoghue couldn't be mo ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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A superb historical novel

I loved this book. Most of the characters are actual historical persons; they are depicted in such a way that they really come alive. You get a good feel of what it must have been like to live in "the World"(aka the beau monde) of 18th century English society.

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