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The Cameo Keeper
Rome 1644. As Pope Innocent X takes the throne, he brings along his sister-in-law, the formidable Donna Olimpia Maidalchini, known as La Papessa – the female Pope. When Mia is offered a position as her personal astrologer, she and fer fiance Jacopo find themselves on opposite sides of the most powerful family in Rome.
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Welcome to the online home of Deborah Swift, historical novelist. Before writing her first novel Deborah worked as a set and costume designer for theatre and TV. Later she took an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, and since then has juggled writing with teaching.
Deborah is passionate about bringing the extraordinary people and events of the past to life, and her books have won the Millennium Readers Award, The Wishing Shelf Readers Award and The Coffee Pot Book Club Gold Medal.
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