Author:Susan Lewis
Some secrets are too devastating to be told...
When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France her mother - the very poised and elegant Jessica - knows instinctively there is more to it.However, Natalie's father - the glamorous, high-flying Charlie - is so paralysed by the horror of losing his daughter, that he refuses even to discuss his wife's suspicions.
In the end, when their marriage is rocked by yet another terrible shock, Jessica decides to go back to France alone in search of some answers.When she gets to the idyllic vineyard in the heart of Burgundy she soon finds a great deal more than she was expecting in a love that is totally forbidden and a truth that will almost certainly devastate her life.
Set during one long hot summer in a sleepy world of wine, food and romance, A French Affair is a deeply sensual and passionate story of love, resistance, loyalty and betrayal.
Deliciously dramatic and positively oozing with tension, this is another wonderfully absorbing novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis ... The characters are well-rounded ... and the descriptions of rural France transport you there in an instant. Expertly written to brew an atmosphere of foreboding, this story is an irresistible blend of intrigue and passion, and the consequences of secrets and betrayal
—— WomanSad, happy, sensual and intriguing
—— Woman's OwnSpellbinding -- you just keep turning the pages, with the atmosphere growing more and more intense as the story leads to its dramatic climax
—— Daily MailMystery and romance par excellence
—— SunFleming finds an unencumbered, historically penetrating language in which the simplest expository sentences can bring prose, story and setting into a crisp and evocative alignment
—— Sam Thompson , GuardianThis is a tense, thrilling and at times darkly comic novel with a complex central character who... bursts off the page
—— Time OutAn extremely wintry and hard hitting adventure story...this is a historical evocation at times as powerful as the account of pre-1914 Berlin that the late great Sybille Bedford gave us in A Legacy..... readers will surely welcome its author to the ranks of our greatest storytellers
—— Literary ReviewVirile, ruthless, adventurous
—— IndependentWith this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy
—— Crime Time MagazineThis is a story not for people who like reading novels but for the much larger number who like solving puzzles
—— Sunday TelegraphBruen's tightly coiled prose strikes like a piss-soaked rattler.
—— CapitalSharp, punch and unsettling, Priest is a masterpiece.
—— Peterborough Evening Telegraph... An intensely dark maelstrom ... excellent.
—— www.marymartin.com.auBruen should be valued as one of the most challenging and memorable writers in the genre at the moment.
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