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A poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit, from the master of historical fiction and the biographer of Dickens, Blake and Thomas More, as well as the author of }London: The Biography{. Here, Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father.