A Dark Inheritance - Softcover

Feinstein, Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0704346710 ISBN 13: 9780704346710

Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Rachel O'Malley is a writer, divorced and bored with her life. A chance meeting takes her to Rome where the exploration of a bestseller and its author leads to a series of revelatory meetings. Also in the city are Joshua, a lover from another era, and Franco Cellini, a politician with connections.

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Review

Elaine Feinstein's DARK INHERITANCE is a wonderfully readable thriller which marries glamour and danger, with a heroine who nearly loses the meaning of her own life as she pursues the truth about the lives of others. Feinstein writes fascinatingly about the power of auotbiography, and the risks that telling your own story can bring. -- Helen Dunmore

In turning her impressively versatile talents to a new genre, Elaine Feinstein has fashioned a clued-up tale of literary detection that offers all the pleasures of a first-rate novel. Written with all her customary insight and powers of observation, Dark Inheritance is a compulsively readable thriller that tells us as much about the mysteries of authorship as of crime. -- Eva Hoffmann

From the Back Cover

The award-winning Elaine Feinstein's latest novel is a true page-turner set in the deceptively beautiful city of Rome.

It is not surprising that a media frenzy is generated by Emanuel Cellini's best selling first novel. The young Italian's reinterpretation of Phaedra naturally makes people wonder about the relationships in his family - is he really writing the secret history of his father, politician Giorgio Celline? Is the novel Emanuel's way of breaking the 'omerta' of an incestuous and corrupt family?

Enter Rachel - sent to write a profile of the elusive Emanuel for a glossy magazine, worried about her gap-year son, haunted by her own underachievement, worn down by her rejection of her mother's jet setting lifestyle and by the loss of her novelist father.

In the potent Roman heat Rachel finds her life opening up again - and sensuality tantalisingly present. But as she gets closer to the Cellini family, as she finds her way into the city's cool courtyards and corridors of power, who knows what discoveries she will make - about her own inner confusion and about the true nature of the bonds between mothers and sons.

Set against Italy's on-going battle with corruption, where elegance often cloaks cruelty and violence, Elaine Feinstein's disturbing erotic literary thriller takes us into the heart of Italian political life and deeper still into the labyrinth of the human psyche.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0704346710
• ISBN 13: 9780704346710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198