Lesley Glaister
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"With her first two novels - the prize-winning Honour Thy Father and Trick or Treat - Lesley Glaister has won the praise of reviewers in both England and America. Now, with her third novel in an astonishing three years, she has delivered her most ambitious book yet, one possessed of all her wit, keenly observant eye, and penchant for the domestic macabre that should gain for her a large, even more enthusiastic readership." "Our narrator - the center...
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Something is buried deep in a northern English town in this novel of secrets, friendship, and long-simmering rivalries Former activists Olive and Arthur have been together for decades. They never married-they don't believe in it. Now obese, Olive is given to violent mood swings, while Arthur tenderly watches over her. Widowhood suits Nell, who has lived here for fifty years. She has her pension and her house but misses her husband, Jim. And now...
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Love never dies in this novel by "a writer of addictive emotional thrillers" (The Independent).
Told from three perspectives A Particular Man is about love, truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss.
When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner of war camp it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner Starling. In Edgar's final moments, Starling makes him a promise. When, after the war, he visits Edgar's family to fulfill this promise, Edgar's...
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Award-winning author Lesley Glaister explores the lives of two women from different centuries, imprisoned for crimes of passion and love Jennifer is in solitary confinement. A place where there is only "memory, imagination, and me." She isn't the first in her family to be convicted of a crime. Centuries earlier, one of her ancestors, the unmarried Peggy Maybee, was arrested for trying to steal a peacock so she could give its beautiful feathers to...
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Three seductive tales of psychological suspense. The Private Parts of Women: Inis has run away from her husband and children-and the rest of her suburban life in London-and moved into a small flat in the inner city of Sheffield. Her neighbor is eighty-four-year-old Trixie Bell, a hymn-singing veteran of the Salvation Army. But beneath Trixie's unassuming exterior lies a very different personality. Three very different personalities-one of which is...
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Three dark and mesmerizing novels from an award-winning writer. In Lesley Glaister's world, the domestic and the bizarre walk hand-in-hand. Limestone and Clay: Nadia is a sculptor driven by a single obsession: to conceive a child. When she learns that her geographer husband has donated his sperm to his former lover, who is now pregnant with his child, it is the ultimate betrayal-and warrants the ultimate payback. Digging to Australia: Twelve-year-old...
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Multiple personality is at the suspenseful heart of this unusual thriller by award-winner Lesley Glaister Inis has bleached her hair white and run away from her husband, Richard, and the son and daughter she loves. After leaving her nice suburban house in London, she moves into a small flat on a dead-end street in the inner city of Sheffield. Her neighbor is eighty-four-year-old Trixie Bell, a hymn-singing veteran of the Salvation Army. But beneath...
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The past haunts the present as a woman struggles to liberate herself from her family's dark history This masterfully written novel plumbs the mysteries of the female psyche in a tale of buried family secrets and obsessive love. Zelda is getting ready for a date with her older lover, Foxy, whom she's sure is about to dump her, when the call comes. Zelda's father has hanged himself. His suicide brings back terrifying childhood memories of screams...
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In Lesley Glaister's spellbinding outback thriller, a young couple's flight from a cold and dreary English winter traps them in a sunbaked nightmare For Cassie, the ad in the newspaper is a dream come true. Spending a year managing a farm in western Australia away from everything and everyone she and her commitment-phobic boyfriend, Graham, know could be exactly what he needs to realize it's time to think about getting married and starting a family....
11) The Lesley Glaister Collection Volume Two: Easy Peasy, Nina Todd Has Gone, and As Far as You Can Go
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In this spine-chilling anthology, the Somerset Maugham Award–winning novelist finds terror in a Japanese prison camp, a hotel lobby, and the Australian outback. Easy Peasy: Zelda is getting ready for a date when the call comes: Her father has hanged himself. His suicide brings back terrifying childhood memories of screams in the night. A POW in a Japanese prison camp during World War II, her father was haunted by nightmares and guilty secrets. Zelda's...
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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Award:Lesley Glaister's first novel is a twisty Gothic tale of familial terror and steadily mounting suspense In a decaying house in the marshy lowlands of England, four spinster sisters live in self-imposed isolation. For more than sixty years, Milly, Agatha, and the identical twins Ellen and Esther-"Ellenanesther"-have been trapped together, haunted by the specter of their dead father, whose...
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This unconventional thriller probes the mysteries of art, celebrity stalking, and fatal obsession In a prestigious London gallery, a retrospective exhibition of Constance Benson's work is about to open. The main attraction will be the unveiling of her last painting. The portrait of her lover, eccentric visionary Patrick Mount, was completed right before he famously disappeared. Why has the reclusive artist kept her final masterwork hidden for thirty...
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Two strangers who should never have met make an unusual connection in this dazzling novel by Lesley Glaister At sixteen, Lamb walked out on her life. It wasn't much to walk away from: Her parents were dead and she had no brothers or sisters-no one in the world who cared if she lived or died. Now she cleans houses and lives in the dusty cellar of an elderly widowed man, balancing on her high wire of loneliness. If she doesn't let anyone in, she can't...
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After a one-night stand, a woman is obsessively pursued in Lesley Glaister's brilliantly plotted thriller You should always trust your gut feelings. . . . If only I had trusted mine. While away on a business trip, Nina meets a gorgeous man in her hotel lobby, and even before their tryst is over, she's sorry she did it. She recently moved in with her boyfriend, Charlie, and feels like the worst kind of cheat. The sooner she puts the sordid encounter...