When young American painter Ida sails to England during the glittering Jazz Age, she’s chasing both art and passion—specifically, the brilliant poet T.S. Eliot, who might tempt her to leave her husband behind.
In the heady world of Virginia Woolf’s London, Ida brushes shoulders with geniuses and eccentrics before retreating to a grand, possibly haunted country estate to restore a damaged secret portrait of King James and his lover, the Duke of Buckingham. But what begins as an artistic commission soon unravels into a tangle of deceit, forgery, and danger.
As Irish gangsters, English aristocrats, and desperate lovers close in, Ida must rely on her wits—and a ragtag band of artists, heiresses, and dealers—to save a historic home, her family, and perhaps her sanity. Can art, nerve, and a touch of madness be enough to see her through?

Praise for The Bloomsbury Forgery

“Effervescent and expertly researched, The Bloomsbury Forgery proves Robert Archambeau a maestro of literary history and gothic mystery. Anybody who’s ever longed to be transported to life among the reckless artistic and intellectual rebels of the 1920s need look no further than this winsome romp among the provocative poets and paint-stained ex-pats.”

—Kathleen Rooney, author of From Dust to Stardust