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The Understudy: A Novel of Borrowed Faces
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Virginia Fairstock has never done anything worth talking about. That's rather the point of being a Fairstock - impeccable behaviour is the family's whole inheritance, and she's kept up her end of it beautifully.
Then a man at the racecourse touches his hat to her father and speaks to him like a debt collector, and won't say what's owed, or why. Then a jeweller's assistant swears he served her, in his shop, on a day she can't account for - she was in London, same as always, and has no way on earth to prove it. Then a shop girl remembers her too.
Somewhere in London, a woman with Virginia's face is spending Virginia's good name like ready money - and doing it so well that the only people who don't believe it's her are the people who actually know her.
Captain Ned Trudge believes her. Belief isn't evidence, and evidence is the only thing that will do, so he does what men in his position generally do: not enough, too slowly, and then, when it finally matters, everything.
What follows runs from a Chelsea slum to a Swiss glacier to a mining camp where the law meets under a tree, and asks a single unglamorous question the whole way: what would you do, if the only way to save yourself was to prove that somewhere out there is another woman wearing your exact face?
A sharp, cold-eyed novel about class, confidence, and the exact going rate for a good reputation - for readers who like their plots twisty and their heroines cleverer than anyone gives them credit for.
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