Lily by Rose Tremain fiction Good statistics are not smoke

Good statistics are not smoke and mirrors

an escapist whose withdrawal from reality took the form of time travel into his own past

and Saigon for clients that included John Kennedy's presidential campaign

you will be by the time you're done

' - AN Wilson

Lily by Rose Tremain fiction Good statistics are not smokeNobody knows yet that she is a murderer Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundling Hospital. Lily is fostered by an affectionate farming family in rural Suffolk, enjoying a brief childhood idyll before she is returned to the Hospital, where she is punished for her rebellious spirit. Released into the harsh world of Victorian London, Lily