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On the run from a scandalous french past, she takes on a new identity, determined to rehabilitate herself. Dangerous tweets 20, the entire novel adapted into tweets one tweet per letter in english as an ibook. Catriona seth, marshal foch professor of french literature, in conversation with. Philippa stockley, a factory of cunning, a darkly humorous novel about an. Buy a cheap copy of a factory of cunning book by philippa stockley. Phillipa stockley is a painter and author of the edge of pleasure and a factory of cunning. A factory of cunning by philippa stockley the independent. If you like your women as cruel as they are beautiful, you may fall hard for philippa stockleys darkly witty novel, a factory of cunning, which follows an exiled.
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