Lace

by Shirley Conran

Book Overview

"Which one of you bitches is my mother?" Four elegant, successful, and sophisticated women in their forties are called to New York's Pierre Hotel to meet Lili -- a beautiful, young, and notoriously temperamental Hollywood movie star. None of the women knows exactly why she is there; each has a reason to hate Lili and each of them is astonished to see the others. They are old friends who share a guilty secret and who have for years been doing their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671446622
• ISBN13: 9780671446628
• Release Date: July 1982
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Loved Every Page!

I thought this book was fantastic! It was so full of drama, excitement, love/lust, scandal, fabulous lifestyles, and exotic places. Having it set back in time a little was really great also because I don't read to many novels that take place between 50's-80's so that was really fascinating. It kept my complete attention, from page one I was into it. This book is huge and it keeps it's pace the entire time. It got me wrapped up in it like "Gone With The Wind" (a racy and drama filled book of it's era)- basically an ADDICTION- it's like a moist piece of chocolate cake, you can't stop eating it and it's good till the last bite.

Great fun

I was long a fan of the TV movie, but having now read the book I can say it is quite a bit better than the movie. It is quite a fun book which takes place on an international stage, just like the movie. France, Greece, Switzerland, New York, and the imaginary middle eastern country of Sydon. The story is fabulously over the top and weighs in at 740 pages, so you really get to know the characters. They are quite likeable and the story is dramatic and fun at the same time. Ritzy, glitzy, trashy and glamorous; this book is great fun and great escapism.

You can't stop reading it once you start!

This book is really good. If you have seen the TV series and you liked it, this book is a must. It contains more details than the TV series and even there are four friends instead of three, which makes this book more interesting. The author describes every episode in such a lively way that you can't help yourself feeling inside the story, and it is a mixture of mystery and romance. The ending is great and this book is far much better than the TV series. You must read it to fully understand what I mean.

Staggeringly captivating

As you get more and more trapped inside the well woven fabric that is "Lace" on your way to unravel the answer to the curiosity-arousing question presented by Lili at the beginning, you realize what "Lace" is all about. Money, sordid love affairs, haute couture, friendship and lots more is what you encounter as you turn page after page and follow the sizzling plot and connect to the lovable characters. "Lace" is a richly enjoyable novel not of the cheap supermarket kind, but truly an amazing book that'll keep you on the edge and mesmerize you from beginning to end. Once you started reading this book, you'll never want to put it down, and will want to reread it a good many of times- I know I have. A truly amazing, staggering story of the dramatic (and humor full) lives of four best friends from being teen angers to adulthood. It is my favorite novel. As Sarah said a prime choice for rainy days and Sundays, indeed!

Enthralling Tale

By following this intricate tale of a friendship formed by four young girls in a 1940's Swiss finishing school, you become one with them and feel as though you've lived all their lives.Tracing their lives from the beginning of their friendship to the present (then ~1980), this is not a "romance novel", but a guide to life, and love.One of the few books I have that I have read that is so totally engaging that you become part of story each time you read it and you hesitate to put it down, and at the end are sad that it's over.A prime choice for rainy days and Sundays.