The Legacy - Softcover
Julia is hopelessly in love with her best friend Ralph, who in turn is tormented by desire for his beautiful cousin Ingrid. Ralph is devastated when Ingrid leaves to start a new life, marrying a much older art dealer in New York. But on the morning of September 11th, 2001, she has an appointment in downtown Manhattan and is never seen again.
Since Ralph cannot travel due to chronic illness, he asks Julia to investigate what happened. She makes the journey to New York - and finds herself drawn into Ingrid's brief and troubled life more than she could have ever imagined. The dark secret that Ingrid had uncovered in her husband's past, and her attraction to violence, causes Julia to discover disturbing feelings in herself she never realised she had. As Julia unravels the mystery of what happened to her friend, so she becomes increasingly ensnared in a sinister web of deceit, in a thrilling story that twists and turns until the very last page.
With extraordinarily vivid, unforgettable characters, a compelling, involving plot and breathtakingly beautiful writing, Kirsten Tranter's debut is not to be missed.
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"A gripping and deeply moving novel." --"The Australian Literary Review"
"A gripping and deeply moving novel." "The Australian Literary Review""
The most satisfying novel I ve read all year." "Bookseller + Publisher "(***1/2 stars)"
Australian author Tranter makes her splendid debut with this novel about friendship, love, abuse and deceit.... Tranter s writing is as rich and luxurious as heavy, expensive brocade. The characters names and many aspects of the plot will remind readers of Henry James Portrait of a Lady.... It s a goldmine of literary references, and finding them can be both fun and challenging. A promising beginning to what will undoubtedly be a successful writing career. Kirkus Reviews (starred)"
This hypnotic debut from Australian author Tranter pays homage to Henry James's A Portrait of a Lady while offering a suspenseful story line worthy of Patricia Highsmith.... While Tranter's sedate pacing avoids typical thriller antics and conventional crime plot twists, she raises some wickedly keen questions about art world wheeling and dealing. Publishers Weekly (starred)"
"A gripping and deeply moving novel." The Australian Literary Review"
I don't know where I've read a better evocation of the unbearable pain of unrequited love than in the measured rhythms and cadences of Tranter's prose.... The Legacy is so accomplished, it's difficult to believe it's a first novel... It demands your full attention and only reluctantly releases you from its clutches to go about your daily life. It's the kind of novel that makes you wish for a mildly debilitating illness to keep you in bed for a couple of days. The Australian Literary Review"
Full of suave and stunning evocations of Sydney and Manhattan, this sparkling and spacious novel captures the smell and sap of young people half in love with everyone they re vividly aware of, and groping to find themselves like the answer to an erotic enigma. Peter Craven, The Monthly (Australia)"
The most satisfying novel I ve read all year." Bookseller + Publisher (***1/2 stars)"
An intelligent and engaging novel that is dense, intricate, detailed, acutely observed, and beautifully written in a voice that is measured and consistent from start to finish. Debra Adelaide, author of The Household Guide to Dying"
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"A gripping and deeply moving novel." "The Australian Literary Review""
The most satisfying novel I ve read all year." "Bookseller + Publisher "(***1/2 stars)"
Australian author Tranter makes her splendid debut with this novel about friendship, love, abuse and deceit.... Tranter s writing is as rich and luxurious as heavy, expensive brocade. The characters names and many aspects of the plot will remind readers of Henry James Portrait of a Lady.... It s a goldmine of literary references, and finding them can be both fun and challenging. A promising beginning to what will undoubtedly be a successful writing career. Kirkus Reviews (starred)"
This hypnotic debut from Australian author Tranter pays homage to Henry James's A Portrait of a Lady while offering a suspenseful story line worthy of Patricia Highsmith.... While Tranter's sedate pacing avoids typical thriller antics and conventional crime plot twists, she raises some wickedly keen questions about art world wheeling and dealing. Publishers Weekly (starred)"
"A gripping and deeply moving novel." The Australian Literary Review"
I don't know where I've read a better evocation of the unbearable pain of unrequited love than in the measured rhythms and cadences of Tranter's prose.... The Legacy is so accomplished, it's difficult to believe it's a first novel... It demands your full attention and only reluctantly releases you from its clutches to go about your daily life. It's the kind of novel that makes you wish for a mildly debilitating illness to keep you in bed for a couple of days. The Australian Literary Review"
Full of suave and stunning evocations of Sydney and Manhattan, this sparkling and spacious novel captures the smell and sap of young people half in love with everyone they re vividly aware of, and groping to find themselves like the answer to an erotic enigma. Peter Craven, The Monthly (Australia)"
The most satisfying novel I ve read all year." Bookseller + Publisher (***1/2 stars)"
An intelligent and engaging novel that is dense, intricate, detailed, acutely observed, and beautifully written in a voice that is measured and consistent from start to finish. Debra Adelaide, author of The Household Guide to Dying"
A thrilling and addictive novel about three friends and the web of deceit that unravels after one of them goes missing. Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune. She leaves her friends Julia and Ralph, who loves her, to marry the cold and intellectual Gil Grey and start a life amid the New York art scene. At 9am on September 11, 2001, she has a downtown appointment with her financial advisor. And is never seen again. A year later Ralph, heartbroken and sick, sends Julia to New York to piece together Ingrid's life away from them. As she grows closer to unearthing the truth, she is forced to confront her conflicted feelings about her former friend. But nothing will prepare Julia for what she ultimately discovers. An utterly compelling and beautifully written novel, The Legacy is a story of truth and lies, friendship and love, that announces the arrival of a major new talent.
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- PublisherQuercus Publishing
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0857380605
- ISBN 13 9780857380609
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages464
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