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An edition of Lovers & Liars (1994)

Lovers and liars

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

Lovers and Liars is Sally Beauman's sensuous, very contemporary story of public masks and secret lives, of a "perfect" marriage that is not what it seems, and of lovers long separated yet destined to meet, tumultuously, again.

On a frosty January morning soon after the New Year's revels, an exquisitely dressed, beautiful blonde woman sends four identical parcels to four different destinations: Paris, New York, Venice and London. But the lovely messenger is not who she claims to be.

Photographer Pascal Lamartine receives his package in Paris: it is a woman's black glove, silky, scented, and disturbing. In London, reporter Gini Hunter, daughter of a famous Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, opens her parcel to find even more threatening contents. And within hours, Gini's enterprising editor assigns both her and Pascal to expose the story of a lifetime; a story so rich, so ripe with potential scandal, that it could make headlines--and ruin lives. For Gini and Pascal must penetrate the perfect facade of John Hawthorne, the charming, charismatic U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, to sift through the layers of ever-shifting truth about his life.

The wealthy scion of a famous American family--in short, perfect presidential material--John Hawthorne appears to have thrown away a promising political career to take a diplomatic post. Why? His wife, Lise, a legendary beauty, is a master at seducing the media; her delicate features are a constant presence on the society pages for her charity work, her skills as a hostess, and her unrelenting chic. Yet the exhaustive, adoring coverage has left the real woman mysteriously opaque. And now, unbelievably, she seems to be the source of certain whisperings about her husband.

But beyond the sensational story they are about to unmask--a black-widow web of deceit, betrayal, and dark desires more complex and perilous than they could have imagined--Gini and Pascal must confront themselves, their past, and their brief, passionate love affair twelve years before, when the fascination between them reached a fever pitch only to end explosively. Even as their investigation plunges them dangerously into the hypocrisies of the privileged and powerful, where each surprising revelation is replaced by a new, even more shocking contradiction, past merges with present, taking the two lovers back to the hot, bare room at the edge of danger where, for one burning moment, the world made perfect sense, took perfect shape.

Deftly woven of erotic secrets and unfolding deceptions that stretch across more than two decades, Lovers and Liars is a romantic and spellbindingly suspenseful journey into the mysteries of the heart, where love can sustain the soul--or twist it cruelly.

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Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Language
English
Pages
582

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Lovers & Liars
September 1998, Media Books Llc
Audio Cassette in English - Abridged edition
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Lovers & Liars (Bookcassette(r) Edition)
July 1, 1994, Bookcassette
Audio Cassette in English - Unabridged edition
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Lovers and liars
1994, Bantam Books
in English
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Lovers and liars
1994, Fawcett Columbine
in English - 1st ed.
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Lovers and liars
1994, Bantam Press
in English
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Lovers & Liars
July 1, 1994, Nova Audio Books
Audio Cassette in English - Abridged edition
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Lovers & Liars
July 1, 1994, Unabridged Library Edition
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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6052.E223 L68 1994

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Pagination
582 p. ;
Number of pages
582

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Open Library
OL1428834M
Internet Archive
secretlives00beau
ISBN 10
0449908801
LCCN
93040093
Library Thing
450252
Goodreads
811995

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