False Pretences"Teasing out the extraordinary within the everyday, False Pretences is a contemporary novel in mosaic. Through the separate yet interlinked stories, it traces the lives of two women as they deal with the complexities of love, private terrors, violence and - most precarious of all - hope. There is mystery, wry humour, sometimes tragedy be-neath the jaunty surfaces glimpsed through the years, until, by the end, we have encompassed their lives." |
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Lee Langley. brown from the sun , has a silky down of fine golden hairs . At the table , earlier , his arm brushed hers and she felt a small shock , as though each tiny hair carried an electric charge which detonated inside her . She ...
Lee Langley. brown from the sun , has a silky down of fine golden hairs . At the table , earlier , his arm brushed hers and she felt a small shock , as though each tiny hair carried an electric charge which detonated inside her . She ...
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... hair and bad legs . But the colour- less woman had an identity : she was one half of a couple . Gloria could not brave the ballroom alone ; she would simply collect her coat and leave . She would tell them tomorrow that she had been ...
... hair and bad legs . But the colour- less woman had an identity : she was one half of a couple . Gloria could not brave the ballroom alone ; she would simply collect her coat and leave . She would tell them tomorrow that she had been ...
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... hair . After a while she had been sent home in the car with the driver , her parents to follow later . Childish memory is an unstable recording machine : she recalled clearly the tinsel in the sunlight , the intricate henna patterns ...
... hair . After a while she had been sent home in the car with the driver , her parents to follow later . Childish memory is an unstable recording machine : she recalled clearly the tinsel in the sunlight , the intricate henna patterns ...
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