Life Mask

Author: Emma Donoghue

LIFE MASK is the true story of three famous Londoners – an artist, an actress and an aristocrat – at the end of the eighteenth century. This is their love story, their gamble, their battle. Let the games begin. Everybody wears a mask. Hadn’t you noticed? We put them on for one very good reason: we dislike our own faces. It’s an era of looming war, and the erosion of freedo….Read More

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