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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... walls and win- dows , damaging itself , bleeding , wings broken , blind now to any sense of direction . At last it dropped to the floor almost at her feet , wings outspread as though still in flight , its neck twisted so that it seemed ...
... walls and win- dows , damaging itself , bleeding , wings broken , blind now to any sense of direction . At last it dropped to the floor almost at her feet , wings outspread as though still in flight , its neck twisted so that it seemed ...
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... walls all over the country , stand- ing in for the Archangel Gabriel in numberless Annunciations : the same blue eyes , bright hair , open , unmarked face . But the busker wears leather jeans , he lacks wings and his movements are far ...
... walls all over the country , stand- ing in for the Archangel Gabriel in numberless Annunciations : the same blue eyes , bright hair , open , unmarked face . But the busker wears leather jeans , he lacks wings and his movements are far ...
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Lee Langley. dropped its side wall to reveal a marine display glittering like a jeweller's shop window : silver ... walls obscured by the beaches of southern California or Texas skyscrapers . ' Nearly there , ' Josie said again . A ...
Lee Langley. dropped its side wall to reveal a marine display glittering like a jeweller's shop window : silver ... walls obscured by the beaches of southern California or Texas skyscrapers . ' Nearly there , ' Josie said again . A ...
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