Beautiful Lies

Summary

London1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverickpolitician, it is the year to make something of herself. A self-proclaimedChilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new artof photography. But it is soon plain that Maribel’s choices are not so simple.As her husband’s career hangs by a thread, her real past, and the family sheabandoned, come back to haunt them both. When the notorious newspaper editorAlfred Webster begins to take an uncommon interest in Maribel, she fears hewill not only destroy Edward’s career but both of their reputations.

Inspiredby the true story of a politician’s wife who lived a double life for decades, BeautifulLies is set in a time that, fraught with economic uncertainty and tabloidscandal-mongering, uncannily presages our own.