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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... remember it so well , ' she said . " That weekend all those years ago . That boy ... ' ' Boy ? ' Jan said . ' You remember . ' Susan prompted her . ' 18 False Pretences.
... remember it so well , ' she said . " That weekend all those years ago . That boy ... ' ' Boy ? ' Jan said . ' You remember . ' Susan prompted her . ' 18 False Pretences.
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... remember learning to read . Ask them and they'll come up with the first book they enjoyed , or they'll vaguely recall a sense of mother , lap , armchair . Or a classroom filled with the noise of other children . I remember . He taught ...
... remember learning to read . Ask them and they'll come up with the first book they enjoyed , or they'll vaguely recall a sense of mother , lap , armchair . Or a classroom filled with the noise of other children . I remember . He taught ...
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... Remember Paris , in '68 ? The riots . Great days ! We were there on the barricades , tearing up the cobblestones - ' ' We did nothing of the kind ! ' ' I distinctly remember prising loose a cobblestone and hurling it at a particularly ...
... Remember Paris , in '68 ? The riots . Great days ! We were there on the barricades , tearing up the cobblestones - ' ' We did nothing of the kind ! ' ' I distinctly remember prising loose a cobblestone and hurling it at a particularly ...
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