Sextet - Softcover

Beauman, Sally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055350326X ISBN 13: 9780553503265

Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), 1998

Synopsis

Journalist Gini Hunter is sent to New York to interview movie actress Natasha Lawrence. She probes unsuccessfully for answers to the central mysteries in Lawrence's life - the stalker who has plagued her for the last five years, the break-up of her marriage to American film director Tomas Court, the fact that despite this she still intends to act in his next film, the first he will direct in England. eanwhile, in London, Gini's friend Lindsay Drummond is trying to forget her unrequited love for Rowland McGuire. Visiting her son in Oxford she meets an old friend of Rowland's, Colin Lascelles, now working as the location manager on Tomas Court's forthcoming film. As Lindsay, Colin and Rowland become caught up in the frantic artificial world of film-making, she begins to see that life can be deadly - especially when it imitates art. At risk are the two men most dear to her, the man she has truly come to love, and her son. oving from Hallowe'en through Thanksgiving to Christmas, from the cloisters of Oxford to the unpredictable looking-glass world of a Hollywood film, this is a novel about obsessions, and the heartbreak they can cause. Since it is also, in part, a comedy of er

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Journalist Lindsay Drummond is about to re-make her life: she plans to move out of London, change her job, and above all, cure herself of her hopeless love for her unfairly handsome colleague, Rowland McGuire. Deadline day is Hallowe'en - but an encounter then with Rowland's friend, Colin Lascelles, a man much less innocent than he seems, quickly teaches her that the best-laid plans can go delightfully awry...

In New York, actress Natasha Lawrence is also trying to rebuild her life. Pursued by a stalker for the past five years, still bound to her ex-husband, the celebrated film director Tomas Court, she retreats with her son to the precincts of the exclusive - and haunted - Conrad apartment building. But will it provide her with the security she so desperately seeks, and will she and her husband be able to lay to rest the ghosts of their past?

Lindsay's and Natasha's lives become inextricably entangled; when the cast of characters gathers for Thanksgiving at the sinister Conrad building, anything can happen, for romance and retribution, marriage and murder are in the air.

About the Author

Sally Beauman was born in Devon, and graduated from Girton College, Cambridge. As a journalist, she has worked in America for New York magazine, and has written for the New Yorker. In England, she has worked for the Daily Telegraph, for Vogue, and was editor of Queen magazine. She has published two works of non-fiction, including The Royal Shakespeare Company- A History of Ten Decades; her novels Destiny, Dark Angel, Lovers and Liars, Danger Zones and Sextet have been translated into over twenty languages and have been bestsellers worldwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 055350326X
• ISBN 13: 9780553503265
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576