The Care and Management of LiesThe New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strainedby Theas passionate embrace of womens suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Theas brother, Tom, who runs the family farm.

Told through couplets and visually arresting shadow boxes

and multiracial ancestors

and destroyed the planet chasing profits

not by staying the course

"—Nikki must travel through the underworld to be reunited with the love of her life

From the 78 to the LP to the digital age

Her enemies come at her like ghosts in a dream

Practical and insightful

and eyelids reveal about moods and motives

they seem like forgotten memories

For some reason

and the holidays will resonate with readers everywhere