Title: Domino
Author: Ross King
Rating: 
3 stars out of 5
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright: 1995
ISBN: 0142003360
Pages: 436
Keywords: fiction, historical
Reading period: 15 January-12 February, 2008
George Cautley, a young gentleman of indifferent background,
comes to London in 1770 and attempts to enter society,
hoping to make his way as a painter.
He becomes obsessed with Lady Beauclair,
who sits for her portrait
and spins him a tale of a castrato opera singer,
who fifty years earlier fled Italy for London.
Lady Beauclair is not what she seems.
Indeed, nothing is what it seems in this novel.
Everything is a mask.
Or a masquerade.
Arch whispers.
Veiled glances.
Layers of face paint hiding blemishes.
New portraits daubed on top of old.
Deception.
Intrigue.