Lucy Beresford
Courting Casanova
In Lucia’s Eyes
By Arthur Japin (Translated by David Colmer)
(Chatto & Windus 247pp £12.99) order from our bookshop
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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