The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
Some women won't be painted out of history . . .
Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, alongside her masterpiece Self Portrait As Sphinx.
Fifty years later, two Cambridge art history students are pulled into a decades-old art history mystery when they stumble across proof that the fire was no accident but something more sinister. What they uncover threatens the very foundation of Juliette’s aristocratic family, exposing long-buried family secrets and reviving rumors of the infamous curse that has haunted the Willoughbys for generations.
But what does their discovery mean? And how is it connected to a brutal murder in present-day Dubai?
A tale of love and madness, obsession and revenge, this compelling work of historical fiction, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby, unravels the riddle posed by a Sphinx who refuses to reveal her secrets . . .
Ellery Lloyd
Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for the London-based husband-and-wife writing team of Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. Collette is a journalist and editor, the former content director of Elle (UK), and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Sunday Times. Paul is the author of two previous novels, Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day Is Like Sunday. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Greenwich. Together, they are the authors of People Like Her, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby, and The Club.
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