Hidden Life

By Adèle Geras

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752893947
• ISBN13: 9780752893945
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Orion Paperbacks
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

Jealousy and spite

When wealthy widow Constance Barrington dies, her will shocks the family. With her spiteful attitude and long memory coming to the fore, she leaves the family home to her wastrel step grandson and leaves her grandaughter, Louise, only the copyrights to her late husband's out of print books. Lou has just emerged from a violent relationship with a beautiful baby daughter, Poppy, and a well warranted wariness of men. Lou had enjoyed a loving relationship with her grandfather and rereads his manuscripts, hoping to write a film script about his early life in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Borneo. Her step brother makes a complete hash of his inheritance and loses most of the millions which the sale of the family home brought, and his sister, Vanessa shocks the family by beginning a relationship with her female work partner, Mickey. It's a most interesting and totally absorbing story of a family in crisis, including Lou's parents and events which strain the family's loyalties to the utmost.