The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood - Hardcover

Bere, Imogen De LA

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312203292 ISBN 13: 9780312203290

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1999

Synopsis

A charming Irish rogue, Palliser Wentwood leaves New Zealand and his family to seek his fortune in England, finding a job as a butler and posing as a widower to woo the shy, conventional, and obese Blanche Lovelace, while his wife back home is faced with a suitor of her own. A first novel.

About this title

About the Author:

Imogen de la Bere divides her time between England and New Zealand, where she has built up a following for her writing on a diverse range of subjects, from theatre, through opera and rock music, to matters of religion. Originally a scholar of Elizabethan popular prose, she found surprisingly few openings in this area, and so resigned herself to a lifetime as a computer consultant, a professional calling that has so far provided no material whatsoever for her fictions.

From the Back Cover:

(Mail on Sunday) Salome Wentwood, the heroine, is encountered, shotgun in hand, preparing to drive away predators from her New Zealand farm. There's a hint of Hardy's Bathsheba about her - and the four daughters who watch the local bachelors come a-courting. Palliser Wentwood, absent husband, is in England, trying to talk his way into money. He begins as a butler, seducing his vulnerable employer. A well-written first novel that shows talent.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0312203292
• ISBN 13: 9780312203290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 314