A sweeping novel of love and obsession follows Laura Andros's journey from her native Greece to an English boarding school, an English reformatory, and, finally, a marriage to a wealthy, yet impossibly demanding, man. 20,000 first printing. Lit Guild & Doubleday.
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From Publishers Weekly
With a snappy blend of treachery, blackmail and unexpected liaisons, Norman ( Spellbound ) puts a fresh face on the tired Cinderella-in-jeopardy story. Rising London employment-agency executive Laura Andros is keeping a secret from her megawealthy American fiance, Roger Ambler: she's a murderer. As shown in flashback, an orphaned Laura, sent at age 12 to an English boarding school, was relentlessly tormented by a pack of bad-seed schoolmates; after killing one girl in self-defense, she was sentenced to six hard years in an institution for juvenile offenders. Despite Laura's efforts to keep her past hidden, however, Robert not only knows her secret but finds it a sexual turn-on. After he and Laura wed, the new bride discovers a few of Roger's own secrets--including a preference for rough sex and a nasty plan to destroy her friendship with Augusta "Gus" Pietrowski, her confidante and protector from the juvenile home. When Laura finds new love with Roger's former friend but current enemy, stalwart newspaper publisher Tom Bailey, Roger's revenge on the pair is deliciously despicable. Equally pleasing to fans of nifty haute trash like this is the poetic justice served on Roger in the unexpected and satisfying finish. First serial to Good Housekeeping; Literary Guild selection.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Norman (Kiss in the Hotel Joseph Conrad and Other Stories, LJ 7/89) here demands that readers suspend disbelief and accept a highly improbable plot. The travesties and tragedies of Laura Andros's life begin when she is sent to an English boarding school. Unhappy there, she becomes the perpetual victim of a group of bullying schoolmates. This unrelenting persecution escalates, and in an act of self-defense Laura kills one of her tormentors. Sent on to Kane House, a juvenile detention center, she is released at age 19 and begins to make a series of bad decisions regarding the opposite sex. Ultimately, this results in her shooting her ex-husband, and in true soap opera melodrama she is on her way back to prison. It's only her enduring friendship with Gus and the love of a somewhat saintly man that keeps this cavalcade of woes from becoming overwhelming. Although published a bit too late for beach reading, this novel has all the attributes that attract public library patrons on the prowl for old-fashioned escapist fiction. [Literary Guild selection.]-Margaret Hanes, Sterling Heights P.L., Mich.
--Margaret Hanes, Sterling Heights P.L., Mich.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--Margaret Hanes, Sterling Heights P.L., Mich.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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