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"A fascinating and debauched romp, moving with dream-like speed through an incredibly vivid seventeenth-century London. Surely the best-written bodice ripper ever published." Andrew Martin Born worlds apart, Lily and Zenobia unite and fight to survive in murderous 17th century London, in a hard-edged, glittering novel. In late seventeenth century London two women, one white, one black, stake everything to prevent a manipulative mogul destroying them. Zenobia, born in poverty, grasps that her only hope of controlling her own life is to capitalise on her looks; Lily, brought to London on a sugar and slave ship as a toy , educated alongside her mistress but used by her master, lives as a kept woman. As their story weaves and folds through a murky and merciless London, both find themselves pitted against a ruthless man the world knows as John Crace. London's rich but festering possibilities as a rapidly-changing multinational city are breathtakingly painted, and pungent milieux ranging from plague pits to prisons to pastry kitchens and Pickled Herring Stairs - are vividly brought to life.
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"Stockley vividly conveys the filth and frivolity of the city and is particularly good on food and fashion. But we're not spared the gruesome underbelly of the city. Black Lily would clearly make a terrific TV series. Stockley's deftly plotted novel has a sting in the tale too. You have to go back to the first chapter to see how beautifully she's set the whole thing up." - Liz Hoggard, Evening Standard
"As rich and dark as the deadly sweetmeats prepared at the story's end...Philippa Stockley has poured her artistry and knowledge into her latest novel...A deliciously satisfying read, and, like the sweetmeats, one to be gobbled up greedily." - Country Life
"A fascinating and debauched romp, moving with dream-like speed through an incredibly vivid seventeenth-century London. Surely the best-written bodice ripper ever published." - Andrew Martin
"An engrossing, many-layered, richly woven tale of intrigue and skulduggery." - --Wendy Moore
Philippa Stockley has worked as an artist, costume designer, set designer, interior designer, journalist, editor, columnist and reviewer. She is the author of two previous novels, both critically acclaimed: The Edge of Pleasure (Little, Brown and Harcourt Brace, 2002) and A Factory of Cunning (Little, Brown and Harcourt Brace, 2006). Stockley has written and/or reviewed for, among others, the Evening Standard, the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent, the Spectator, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement and Country Life. She has lectured at Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Courtauld Institute, and published short stories in Arete magazine. Philippa Stockley lives in Whitechapel, London.
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- PublisherPimpernel Press Ltd
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1910258091
- ISBN 13 9781910258095
- BindingPaperback
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