Lucy Beresford
Courting Casanova
In Lucia’s Eyes
By Arthur Japin (Translated by David Colmer)
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Fact as fiction is very much in vogue, and, whilst Mark Lawson waspishly dissects the dying days of the Wilson government in his latest novel Enough is Enough, and Channel 4 explores the apparent suicide of David Kelly, it’s refreshing to see the eighteenth century enjoying similar treatment.
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