Heroic Failure by Fintan O’Toole biography said Rachel Seiffert in The

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It tells the story of a “merchant and a celebrity courtesan brought together by a mermaid in London in 1785”

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shocking” history of the tragedy will “cement her deserved reputation as the leading historian of Soviet crimes”

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