The Liar's Daughter
1st Edition
Published on 10. October 2013
320 pages
978-0-85738-785-1 (ISBN)
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Nan's mother loves to tell her daughter stories, though the details vary according to how much she has drunk. The tale she tells most often claims that Admiral Lord Nelson is Nan's father: he was her lover and she saw him die at Trafalgar. Or so she claims.
From poor beginnings, resourceful Nan makes her own determined way through life, but always haunted by the wish to know the truth about her father.
From Portsmouth in the early 1800s to the battlefields of the Crimea, Nan discovers the world is full of people with a story about Nelson. There are some questions we can never hope to answer...
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Laurie Graham
The Liar's Daughter
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10/2013
Quercus Publishing
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Laurie Graham is a former Daily Telegraph columnist and contributing editor of She magazine. The author of several acclaimed novels, most recently The Grand Duchess of Nowhere and The Night in Question (2015), Laurie lives in Dublin. Visit her website at www.lauriegraham.com
