Conflicts of Interest
$26.45
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
12 July 2018
Summary
‘A skilful prose stylist and a connoisseur of telling details’ Guardian
Lawrence Leith has retreated from his once-successful career in TV to a small village in the south of France to mourn the end of his marriage and the loss of his job.
When his old colleague Martin Elliott arrives for a summer holiday, surrounded by his lovely family and new, influential friends, he seems to have everything that Lawrence lacks. Martin is convinced that Lawrence shoul…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781444794397 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1444794396 |
| Author: | Terry Stiastny |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 12 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 178mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
The Provence setting, which I know well, is skilfully evoked, as are all the settings and relationships in this tense and engaging story of divided loyalties and the conflict between personal responsibility and professional ambition - Literary Sofa
Beautifully written and well-constructed, this is a fine book - thoroughly believable and yet shocking too - Country LifeAbout The Author
Terry Stiastny
Terry Stiastny spent the majority of her journalistic career reporting for BBC News, which she left in 2012. During her time at the BBC, she worked in Berlin and Brussels, covered politics in Westminster and spent many years on BBC Radio 4 news programmes. She was educated at Oxford University, studying PPE at Balliol College and International Relations (MPhil) at St Antony’s College. She lives in London with her husband and two sons. Her first book, Acts of Omission, won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award 2014.
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