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Title: Beautiful Lies

Author: Clare Clark

Narrator: Wanda McCaddon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-12

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to make her own mark on the world. But her husband's outspoken views inspire enmity as well as admiration - and the wife of a member of parliament should not be hiding the kind of secrets Maribel has buried in her past. When a notorious newspaper editor begins to take an uncommon interest in her, Maribel fears he will destroy not only her husband's career but both of their reputations.

Beautiful Lies is set in a Jubilee year that, fraught with economic uncertainty, riots, and tabloid scandal-mongering, uncannily presages our own. Praised by Hilary Mantel as "one of those writers who can see into the past and help us feel its texture", Clark has created a brilliant, riveting novel that illuminates both Victorian England and our own times.

Members Reviews:

"One made of one's life what one was able"...and then there's Mrs. Campbell Lowe

Although Beautiful Lies was an elegant historical novel that captured multiple locations in Europe during 1887, I am sorry I did not enjoy this promenade of secrets and deceptions. This novel immersed this reader into familiar and enthralling details but lost me on the pacing and the repetitious nature and habits of the characters. A lot of patience is asked of the reader and perhaps I was not in the mood to submit, I was hoping more in terms of the appeal of the secrets or even the resolution but I guess this one just wasn't for me. However, the attention to historical detail was exquisite and I will be reading another title from Ms. Clark in the near future. I would recommend this read to those who love the Victorian Era and those readers who have been looking for an elegant read about a strong personality that wears a string of secrets with pride and walks the streets with a hint of a smile.

Not a book I would recommend

I found this book a little boring and had trouble finishing it.It was well written but very slow

An interesting insight into Victorian England

This book started off as a credible window into the life of an upper class couple in 1880's London. The husband is a proto-Socialist and the wife has a mysterious history. For some reason, the story digresses into a hunt for a Spanish gold mine, the tapers off after that.

Very Interesting read

I LIKED the characters in the book. Some were very likable and others despicable but the story shows that so much of the ideas and lives of people are the same today as over 100 years ago.

I loved reading this book

I loved reading this book, not sure why exactly and it doesn't have a full circle happy ending. It's over a course of time and then it's over. Still loved it.