Lace [Kindle Edition]

Shirley Conran (Author)

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Review

"A high-paced, globe-trotting novel...crammed with exotic locations, high-pressure career decisions and loads of sex."

-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

Product Description

"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 best to keep that secret quiet. Their lives are changed forever, however, when Lili suddenly confronts them. When the women refuse to answer her, Lili proceeds to travel around the world through the playgrounds of the rich and famous, seeking to answer the question that has obsessed and almost destroyed her.

From Paris to London, from the boardroom to the bedroom, Lace takes the reader into the rarified world of five unforgettable women who are as beautiful, as complex and as strong as...lace.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1029 KB
• Print Length: 752 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone (August 7, 2007)
• Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000UWAEVS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #395,187 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good in a Judith Krantz, trashy-yet-well-written kind of way, September 5, 2007

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Helen Thermopolis (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lace (Paperback)

This is good in a Judith Krantz, trashy-yet-well-written kind of way. Contains unfortunate depictions of Arab culture, yet the book rarely raises issues of inter-racial couples, despite its prevalence.

This has a completely implausible plot--four girls meet while together at boarding school in Sweden, have a lot of sex with inappropriate men, one of them winds up having a kid and putting it up for adoption. Then they marry rich, famous, and powerful men from a variety of cultures. The kid winds up having a horrible early life, but manages to rise from making porn movies in France to being an international movie star. Early on in the book, she confronts the four old friends and asks them, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?"

It just gets better from there....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More Like Cotton, February 1, 2011

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M. B. "Martin Boucher" (Montreal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lace (Paperback)

Here's an example of a novel less impressive than its adaptation to the small screen. We still get Lili, the sexy superstar in search of her mother. We get the three school chums who stay united through thick and thin (or through "sick and sin" according to French Maxine), the men in their lives, the Valentine dance ball, and the birth of an illegitimate child. But what's added to this already rich cast of characters is a brochette of less than colorful ones, like Guy, the struggling designer who's storyline about stolen creations doesn't really go anywhere, and the introduction of a fourth friend named Kate who's presence only ends up being lukewarm. Yet author Conran knows how to create some effective moments. Lili's trapped-in-a-spiderweb-like lifestyle is a page-turning experience that adds depth to her thinly veiled character, and Abdullah's political marginality is a riveting take from the already established views of the Frenches and the Americans. But moments like those aren't a dime a dozen in this novel. What could have been a fun, unique experience of getting into the psyche of all the main characters already introduced on TV turned out to be an overlong, under-edited unimpressiveness that shouldn't have been. A shame.-----Martin Boucher

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really enjoyed it., May 25, 2008

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C. Hester (Simi Valley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lace (Paperback)

I really enjoyed this book. I actually was disappointed when I was finished because I wanted to know how it all went.......well, can't give the end away. It was well rounded - I didn't enjoy the pain and suffering that Lili had to endure - but I see how it was necessary to fulfill the story line. There were tedious moments when you needed to know details and it became a bit slow - but all in all I LOVED it. I intend to search out more of this authors titles.