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The Lambs of London

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Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the booksellers son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man. In The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father, and no one knows quite what to believe. Ingenious and vividly alive, The Lambs of London is a poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit. A poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit, from the master of historical fiction and the biographer of Dickens, Blake and Thomas More, as well as the author of "London: The Biography". Here, Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop a
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Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the booksellers son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man. In The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father, and no one knows quite what to believe. Ingenious and vividly alive, The Lambs of London is a poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit. A poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit, from the master of historical fiction and the biographer of Dickens, Blake and Thomas More, as well as the author of "London: The Biography". Here, Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father.
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AuthorAckroyd, Peter
PublisherVintage Books
Year2005
ISBN9780099472094
BindingPaperback
ConditionVery Good
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