Dimensions
136 x 225 x 52mm
From the author of the bestselling 'Slammerkin' comes a gripping historical novel based on the true story of a love triangle between celebrities - an artist, an actress and an aristocrat - that scandalised late eighteenth-century London.
Lord Derby, unhappily married and the inventor of the horse race that bears his name, is the steadfast suitor of England's leading comedy star Eliza Farren. When the working-class actress begins a deep friendship with the aristocratic widow Anne Damer, a sculptor and rumoured Sapphist, the consequent scandal threatens to topple Eliza from her precarious position, and destroy the lives of all three.
In the Houses of Parliament, on the stage, in the bedroom, at the race track, and in the intimate salons of the Beau Monde, Life Mask vividly brings to life a world where political liaisons prove just as dangerous as erotic ones.
