Kaleidoscope: A NovelWhen a beautiful young Frenchwoman and a brilliant American actor meet in wartime Paris, their love begins like a fairy tale but ends in tragedy. Suddenly orphaned, their three children are cruelly separated. Megan, the baby, adopted by a family of comfortable means, becomes a doctor in the rural Appalachia. Alexandra, raised in lavish wealth, marries a powerful man whose pride is in his pedigree and who assumes that Alexandra is her parents' natural offspring. Neither of them has the remotest suspicion that she is adopted, or what turbulent tragedy lurks in her past. And Hilary, oldest of the Walker children, remembers them all, and the grief that tore them apart and cast them into separate lives. Feeling the loss throughout her life, and unable to find her sisters, she builds an extraordinary career and has no personal life. When John Chapman, lawyer and prestigious private investigator, is asked to find these three women, he wonders why. Their parents' only friend, he did nothing to keep them together as children and has been haunted by remorse all his life. The investigator follows a trail that leads from chic New York to Boston slums, from elegant Parisian salons to the Appalachian hills, to the place where the three sisters face each other and one more final, devastating truth before they can move on. |
Contents
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Section 2 | 36 |
Section 3 | 45 |
Section 4 | 56 |
Section 5 | 71 |
Section 6 | 90 |
Section 7 | 110 |
Section 8 | 120 |
Section 19 | 280 |
Section 20 | 289 |
Section 21 | 300 |
Section 22 | 305 |
Section 23 | 321 |
Section 24 | 335 |
Section 25 | 342 |
Section 26 | 352 |
Section 9 | 148 |
Section 10 | 165 |
Section 11 | 183 |
Section 12 | 191 |
Section 13 | 223 |
Section 14 | 227 |
Section 15 | 235 |
Section 16 | 251 |
Section 17 | 254 |
Section 18 | 269 |
Section 27 | 359 |
Section 28 | 367 |
Section 29 | 373 |
Section 30 | 377 |
Section 31 | 405 |
Section 32 | 410 |
Section 33 | 413 |
Section 34 | 417 |
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