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Author_Bernardine Bishop
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Product details
- ISBN 9781444789270
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2014
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Outdoes Muriel Spark and Evelyn Waugh' Margaret Drabble, Observer
Accused of child abuse, Father Roger Tree confesses at once; it masks a darker secret. Meanwhile his sister Romola faces a future without their beloved brother, the novelist Hereward Tree. Can she live with the ending of his last book? And then there is Hereward's much younger lover, Carina, who takes fate into her own hands. But it is Betty Winterborne, forced to re-examine the death of her son Mark twenty years before, who has the courage to face the truth.
There are the lies we tell others, and the lies we tell ourselves. This is a story about the difference.
The great-granddaughter of the poet Alice Meynell, Bernardine Bishop was the youngest witness in the Lady Chatterley trial in 1960. After writing two early novels, she taught in a London comprehensive school for ten years and then had a distinguished career as a psychotherapist, during which she brought up her two sons. Cancer forced her retirement in 2010 and she returned to her first love, fiction. Bernardine Bishop lived in London with her husband, until her death in July 2013.
