What could be saved.
What could be saved.
By
:
Schwarz, Liese O'Halloran.
Publication Date
:
2021
Subject Term
:
Siblings -- Fiction.
Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Intelligence officers -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Summary
:
Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. Bangkok, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US: ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home. But Robert works for American intelligence, and as Genevieve finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with her husband's boss their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they don't really understand.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781982150617
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Gander (GGR) | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC SCH | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC SCH | Checked In |