Author:Margaret Forster
Born in Carlisle in 1887, brought up in a children's home and by reluctant relatives, Evie, with her wild hair and unassuming ways, seems a quiet, undemanding child.
Shona, born almost seventy years later, is headstrong and striking. She grows up in comfort and security in Scotland, the only child of doting parents. But there are, as she discovers, unanswered questions about her past.
The two girls have only one thing in common: both were abandoned as babies by their mothers. Different times, different circumstances, but these two girls grow up sharing the same obsession. Each sets out to stalk and then haunt her natural mother. Both mothers dread disclosure; both daughters seek emotional compensation and, ultimately, revenge.
A brilliant exploration of choice and consequence
—— Mail on SundayEnthralling... readers will plunge happily into the kind of family story for which Margaret Foster is celebrated and which she executes so well
—— Anita Brooker , SpectatorAn unfailingly intelligent novel, full of lucid observation of a phenomenon, mother-love, too often seen through a gilded haze of false feeling and wishful thinking... Forster is a fine storyteller
—— Sunday TimesIntricate, romantic and full of suspense
—— ObserverAn excellently funny, moving novel... a text for our times
—— Auberon Waugh , IndependentA distinctive portrait of Victorian London... Clark very delicately spins out the parallels with today
—— ScotsmanA wonderfully observed novel which explores both the role of women and the tabloid press in Victoria's jubilee year. Completely gripping
—— Rosie BoycottSentences that are so lush, so beautifully finished, that one almost wants to stroke her prose
—— Judith Flanders , GuardianA hugely entertaining and generous piece of story-telling
—— James Walton , Daily MailClark works on a large canvas to tell her story and Beautiful Lies is rich in character, event and period detail, but it is the compelling evocation of its heroine’s predicament that stays in the memory
—— Nick Rennison , Sunday TimesThis is a delicious brick of a book, at the high end of historical fiction; immaculately informed, with characters you can’t forget
—— Kate Saunders , SagaA meticulously researched and elegantly written novel…
—— Daisy Waugh , MetroA touching portrayal of a highly unusual marriage
—— Lesley McDowell , Independent on SundayClark is speaking for herself, and for the power of fiction
—— Judith Flanders , Guardian
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