A Factory of Cunning (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780156030670)

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.


Author: Philippa Stockley
ISBN-10: 0156030675
ISBN-13: 9780156030670
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2006
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.28w x 0.86d