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This is a labyrinth of a tale, a riveting story told within the framework of one reporter's notes and a woman's letters from prison. A young and successful journalist in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But her husband, a fellow reporter, has a tendency towards alcohol and violent abuse. When home life becomes intolerable, Maureen flees with her baby daughter. In a Maine fishing town she assumes a new identity and settles into a new life. Two married men pursue her, and one captures her heart. But this ends suddenly leaving behind a murder, a rape charge, a suicide and a helpless child. Nineteen years later, a cache of documents regarding Maureen English - abused, accused and imprisoned - are given to her daughter by the journalist who made her name reporting the case. The truth should lie within them, but the papers raise far more questions than they answer...

About the Author :
Anita Shreve began writing fiction while she was a high school teacher, then went on to work as a journalist. When her first novel, Eden Close was published in 1989, she gave up journalism to write fiction full time, thrilled, she says, with "the rush of freedom that I could make it up". She lives in Massachusetts.

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?an absorbing tale, told by an excellent American cast.? - SUNDAY TIMES ?Anita Shreve also asks what a storyteller should do with her material, at the start of STRANGE FITS OF PASSION (Orion ?12.99), her compelling, disturbing account of a murder committed within an apparently sublime marriage. Her narrator covered the original case: 20 years on, this journalist asks for forgiveness, fearing that her own article might have influenced its outcome.Tara Ward is the battered wife, Lorelei King the journalist.? - THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780752857176
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Height: 141 mm
  • Weight: 242 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0752857177
  • Publisher Date: 04 Sep 2003
  • Binding: Audio cassette
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Width: 106 mm


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