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A First UK edition hardback in very god condition for its age. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. Age tanning to pages. The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price but is showing some slight signs of wear at the top and bottom of the spine.
Author’s debut novel.
SYNOPSIS: ” After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist trying to make his way in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait while she in turn tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel’s Opera company fifty years before.
But Cautley has also made a second acquaintance that same evening, the eminent painter Sir Endymion Straker, and through him, Eleanora, Sir Endymion’s mistress. In her cold garret, Eleanora tells Cautley another tragic tale – one that features the sinister Robery Hannah. Who is Hannah and what is his connection with Lady Beauclair?
In attempting to answer this, he unwittingly finds himself re-enacting the tragic fate of Tristano.”
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