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First Published:
Aug 2005, 352 pages
Paperback:
Jun 2006, 368 pages
Book Reviewed by:
BookBrowse Review Team
Buy This Book
If you're a fan of quality
period fiction and have not yet discovered
Jacqueline Winspear you must, absolutely
must, hurry down to your bookstore or library
and pick yourself up a copy of Pardonable
Lies (or one her two earlier books) at
your earliest opportunity; the plot of each book stands alone and Winspear provides sufficient backstory in each that you can dip into the series at any point.
For those of you who are champing at
the bit for the next in the series, your
wait is almost over .... Messenger of
Truth will be simultaneously released in
the UK and USA in hardcover this August.
This review was originally published in The BookBrowse Review in August 2005, and has been updated for the
July 2006 edition.
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