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Elizabeth Barber is crossing the Atlantic by liner with her perfectly adequate boyfriend, Derek, who might be planning to propose. In fleeing the UK - temporarily - Elizabeth may also be in flight from her past and the charismatic Arthur, once her partner in what she came to see as a series of crimes. Together they acted as fake mediums, perfecting the arcane skills practised by effective frauds.
Elizabeth finally rejected what once seemed an intoxicating game. Arthur continued his search for the right way to do wrong. He now subsidises free closure for the traumatised and dispossessed by preying on the super-rich. The pair still meet occasionally, for weekends of sexual oblivion, but their affection lacerates as much as it consoles.
She hadn't, though, expected the other man on the boat. As her voyage progresses, Elizabeth's past is revealed, codes slowly form and break as communication deepens. It's time for her to discover who are the true deceivers and who are the truly deceived.
What's more, is the book itself - a fiction which may not always be lying - deceiving the reader? Offering illusions and false trails, magical numbers and redemptive humour, this is a novel about what happens when we are misled and when we are true: an extraordinarily intricate and intimate journey into our minds and hearts undertaken by a writer of great gifts - a maker of wonders.
Elizabeth finally rejected what once seemed an intoxicating game. Arthur continued his search for the right way to do wrong. He now subsidises free closure for the traumatised and dispossessed by preying on the super-rich. The pair still meet occasionally, for weekends of sexual oblivion, but their affection lacerates as much as it consoles.
She hadn't, though, expected the other man on the boat. As her voyage progresses, Elizabeth's past is revealed, codes slowly form and break as communication deepens. It's time for her to discover who are the true deceivers and who are the truly deceived.
What's more, is the book itself - a fiction which may not always be lying - deceiving the reader? Offering illusions and false trails, magical numbers and redemptive humour, this is a novel about what happens when we are misled and when we are true: an extraordinarily intricate and intimate journey into our minds and hearts undertaken by a writer of great gifts - a maker of wonders.
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"This woman is a profound writer." (Richard Ford)
"This is a masterful novel, imaginatively crafted, shaped by big, precisely articulated emotion." (The Times, Saturday Review)
"Kennedy is as disconcertingly accurate at tenderness as at wildness... A passionate writer, on the edge and at risk." (New York Times Book Review)
"Kennedy writes with flaying precision about the things we won't often admit to ourselves, let alone speak aloud." (Daily Mail)
"A virtuoso of prose. Her phrasing is fine-tuned and supple to the highest degree: intuitive and subtle about the multifarious sensations of being alive." (London Review of Books)
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"This is a masterful novel, imaginatively crafted, shaped by big, precisely articulated emotion." (The Times, Saturday Review)
"Kennedy is as disconcertingly accurate at tenderness as at wildness... A passionate writer, on the edge and at risk." (New York Times Book Review)
"Kennedy writes with flaying precision about the things we won't often admit to ourselves, let alone speak aloud." (Daily Mail)
"A virtuoso of prose. Her phrasing is fine-tuned and supple to the highest degree: intuitive and subtle about the multifarious sensations of being alive." (London Review of Books)
An extraordinary story of love, loss and the act of deception from one of the finest novelists in contemporary British fiction.
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- PublisherWindsor
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 144585998X
- ISBN 13 9781445859989
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