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The Art of a Lie

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10 July 2025
652 minutes
Sophie Roberts, Justin Avoth, Laura Shepherd-Robinson
9781529053760
Imprint: Mantle

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Astonishing. The Art of a Lie is Laura Shepherd-Robinson at the height of her considerable powers. Of course it’s beautifully written and richly detailed, but it’s also fiendishly twisting and properly thrilling. A rare and wonderful story.Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colours of the Dark
A twisty confection as subtle and delicious as one of Hannah's iced creams. I loved itRuth Ware, author of The woman in Cabin 10
Dual narrations by Sophie Roberts and Justin Avoth make following this twisty historical confection an absolute treat . . . As the city of London itself becomes a character, Roberts and Avoth are top-notch. Whom to believe? Whom to mistrust? The title gives nothing—and everything—away.AudioFile 2025
Told with authority and panache, Shepherd-Robinson takes us on a breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl through the Georgian London of the striving middle classes and those who would prey upon them. A woman fighting for her future, murder, romance, deception – and the best desserts in town – this book has it all. MasterfulAbir Mukherjee, bestselling author of Hunted