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Philippa Stockley

    Philippa Stockley est une romancière et une journaliste primée dont l'œuvre est profondément ancrée dans son parcours en histoire de l'art. Elle crée des récits captivants situés dans des périodes historiques richement détaillées, explorant les relations humaines et les intrigues sociétales avec un sens aigu des nuances du passé. Stockley combine magistralement sa compréhension académique de l'art et de l'histoire avec un talent narratif, créant des mondes immersifs et atmosphériques qui captivent les lecteurs. Ses romans se distinguent par leur exploration perspicace de la nature humaine et des motivations complexes qui animent ses personnages.

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    A Factory of Cunning
    • 2023

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    • 2006

      One freezing April morning, two veiled women step off the boat from Holland. They are on the run: a scheming French aristocrat, who goes by her nom de plume of Mrs Fox, and her loyal maidservant. With only a handful of gold and fearing for her life, Mrs Fox sets about establishing herslf with high society. Immoral and beautiful, Mrs Fox has always used men to support and amuse her. Trusting on her wits to keep ahead of the hangman, she manipulates others to survive: gullible Lord Danceacre, sweet Violet Denyss and degenerate predator Earl Much. Yet in the earl, Mrs Fox has met an adversary whose sadistic visciousness is a match for her own attempts to destroy him. Through a dark, quick world of liars and lechers, where infidelity and intellect cross swords with desire and death, Mrs Fox hurtles towards a horrible climax. Here is London, 1784 ...welcome to a factory of cunning.

      A Factory of Cunning