The Golden Hour av Jacquie Bloese

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<p><b>''What a sumptuous, evocative triumph of a novel!'' Jenny Ashcroft </b><br><br><b>At the golden hour, hidden truths and desires come to light . . .</b><br><br> In the genteel squares of late-Victorian Brighton<b>, Ellen and Reynold Harper</b> - twins, companions, colleagues - ply their trade as portrait photographers.<br><br> But at the golden hour, the models arrive to pose for the lucrative - and illicit - photographs that really keep the Harpers'' business afloat. This is the other, shadowy world of the city: a world of erotic tableaux, boundary-crossing music hall performers, and the sinister figure of the local gangster, the Croc.<br><br> When Ellen is drawn into the orbit of unhappy newly-wed <b>Clementine</b>, she finds herself torn between loyalty to her brother, her dangerous attraction to new model, <b>Lily</b>, and her burgeoning friendship with Clem. And as the two worlds of Brighton collide, the three women discover that there is only a knife edge between the promise