Domino
Author: Ross King
By the author of the acclaimed Brunelleschi’s Dome.After meeting the mysterious and beautiful Lady Beauclair at a society ball, George Cautley, a hapless young artist adrift in the gilded world of 1770s London, paints her portrait. She, in turn, tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel’s opera company fifty years before. But Cautley also meet….Read More
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