The blue book
by A.L. Kennedy
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"While on a transatlantic trip with her soon-to-be-fiance Derek, Elizabeth unexpectedly runs into ex-lover Arthur, with whom she shares a shady past: the pair once worked as traveling spiritual mediums who conned the vulnerable by pretending to contact the spirits of departed loved ones. While Derek remains seasick and cabin-bound, Elizabeth wanders the ship, alternately avoiding and seeking out Arthur. Unable to avoid memories of their fractured past, she must face the deception they practiced even as she accepts the peace they brought to the grief-stricken who sought their services"--Dust jacket flap.
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Impostors and imposture, Interpersonal relations, Truthfulness and falsehood, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Ocean liners, Mediums, Spiritualists, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Swindlers and swindling, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, New York Times reviewed, Man-woman relationshipsShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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The blue book
2013, New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
in English
- 1st U.S. ed.
0544027701 9780544027701
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The blue book
2012, AudioGO by arrangement with Random House
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- Large print ed.
144585998X 9781445859989
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"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Jonathan Cape"--T.p. verso.
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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. 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...
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