New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2004.). First edition - Epic historical novel by this Irish-born writer based on the lives of three eighteenth-century Londoners in a portrait of a world on the brink of revolution - a young widowed sculptress, an actress and Lord Derby, inventor of the horse race that bears his name - and on the rumors of a scandalous love triangle. Author's note and list of dramatis personae. 650 pp.