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|title=Beautiful Lies

|author=Claire Clark

|publisher=Vintage

|date=June 2013

|summary=Elegantly written story of Victorian scandal and deceit showing that fear of press exposure is nothing new, and nor is photographic manipulation. Based on real people, almost all of the more extraordinary aspects of this story are based on historical fact.

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Clare Clark's ''Beautiful Lies'' takes in Royal jubilees, London riots, newspaper editors overstepping the bounds on personal vendettas and political sex scandals - all set in the late 1880s showing how little has changed. There are even early instances and questions over photographic manipulation. Maribel, apparently a Chilean heiress and wife of radical, socialist politician Edward Campbell Lowe, has a past which she has tries to keep buried. If it were to be revealed, both her and her husband would be ruined by the scandal. Making enemies of an unscrupulous and hypocritical newspaper editor might not be the best move then.