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More info The slums of Victorian London are not the right place for a young lady who has lost her parents. However, the life of a street thief, it seemed destined for her, changes abruptly after meeting with the artist Richard Radcliffe. Lilly Millington — as she calls herself — becomes his model and muse. Together with a company of friends, the lovers find themselves in an old mansion on the banks of the Thames, where they carelessly spend the summer of 1862, until their idyllic existence collapses overnight as a result of a catastrophe that resulted in the death of one woman and the disappearance of another … an old album with sketches of the artist and a photograph of an unknown person was found — and the light of truth will finally shed on the events of the past, buried in the lapses of time. In her book, Kate Morton, author of international bestsellers, including the novels When the Fog Clears, Distant Hours, Forgotten Garden, etc., writes about art and love, grievous loss and remorse, about time and eternity, and also that the only way to the future sometimes lies through the past. …
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