Life MaskThe bestselling author of Slammerkin vividly brings to life the Beau Monde of late eighteenth century England, turning the private drama of three celebrated Londoners into a robust, full bodied portrait of a world on the brink of revolution. In a time of looming war, of glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals of the Whig Party work to topple a tyrannical prime minister and a lunatic king. Marriages and friendships stretch or