'A winner. The narrative is crisp, the characterisation revealing, the ending quite modern in its ambiguity.' The Lady
Two very different - yet physically identical - young ladies meet at a boarding school once attended by Jane Austen in Joan Aiken's engrossing historical novel, Deception.
Self-righteous Louisa wants to escape her grand family life in Northumberland and become a missionary in India. Imaginative and quiet Alvey has no family and only longs for peaceful independence to complete her novel.
So when Louisa suggests swapping identities it seems like the perfect plan: Alvey will have a peaceful country manor in which to write her book and Louisa will be free to voyage across the globe. But when Alvey becomes a beloved and indispensible member of her extraordinary new family, how will they view the return of the horrible Louisa?
Joan Aiken weaves a complicated plot of deception and identity, peopled with strong female characters, in this unique historical romance.
- ISBN10 0575040262
- ISBN13 9780575040267
- Publish Date 1 May 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English