Precipice by Robert Harris week covers ' -- Nigella Lawson'It is

' -- Nigella Lawson'It is as infectious as it is delicious

despite terror

but few countries do more to frustrate global anti-corruption efforts

She illuminates the people

scrupulous and unsparing lucidity

Precipice by Robert Harris week covers ' -- Nigella Lawson'It isSummer 1914. A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26 year old Venetia Stanley aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, a man more than twice her age. He writes to her obsessively, sharing the most sensitive matters of state. As Asquith reluctantly leads the country into war with Germany, a young intelligence officer is assigned to investigate a leak of top secret documents and