A Factory Of Cunning

Phillippa Stockley

ISBN 10: 0156030675 / ISBN 13: 9780156030670

Published by Harper Paperbacks, 2006

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[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: Phillpa Stockley Pub Date: 1/1/2005 Binding: paperback Pages: 355 First edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Factory Of Cunning
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156030675
• ISBN 13: 9780156030670
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Set in late eighteenth-century England, Philippa Stockley’s American debut gives us a wickedly delightful but deadly serious battle of the wills and the sexes. It begins with the arrival in London of the mysterious Mrs. Fox—on the run from a scandalous French past—who takes a new identity, determined to reinvent herself. She must pit her formidable skills for revenge against Earl Much, a British aristocrat with no less notorious a past and easily her match in sinfulness and intrigue. Between these two swirls a story featuring venal lords, wronged maidens, and reprobate clergymen, transporting readers from bawdy houses to country estates—places where the pleasures of the flesh are both high comedy and serious business. 
 
A Factory of Cunning takes readers to the world immortal­ized in Dangerous Liaisons. And, like Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White, the vividly rendered setting and characters give the thrill of a fresh discovery.

About the Author

Philippa Stockley is a deputy editor at the Evening Standard and also works as an artist and illustrator. She lives in London.