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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... He guided her , but she knew where the true authority lay : Dorothea was redundant here . Tonight she was Lola Montez , Carmen , Evita . While the music played . A Sense of Isolation A Sense of Isolation Henderson got False Pretences.
... He guided her , but she knew where the true authority lay : Dorothea was redundant here . Tonight she was Lola Montez , Carmen , Evita . While the music played . A Sense of Isolation A Sense of Isolation Henderson got False Pretences.
Page 120
... sense of distance could create a problem , she said , ' It can affect the soul . ' She laughed , to take the curse off the phrase . And then she talked of the sense of isolation experienced by Australians on the western seaboard , how ...
... sense of distance could create a problem , she said , ' It can affect the soul . ' She laughed , to take the curse off the phrase . And then she talked of the sense of isolation experienced by Australians on the western seaboard , how ...
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... sense of isola- tion , though in his case the landscapes were interior ones , the featureless reaches of the mind , the distances black as space . He made half - hearted efforts , earlier on , 121 A Sense of Isolation.
... sense of isola- tion , though in his case the landscapes were interior ones , the featureless reaches of the mind , the distances black as space . He made half - hearted efforts , earlier on , 121 A Sense of Isolation.
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