Telling Stories - Couverture souple

Jones, Beverley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908122110 ISBN 13 : 9781908122117

Editeur : Cutting Edge Press, 2012

Synopsis

Friendship, freedom, booze and student loans: the glory days of University, the halcyon haze. For friends Liz, Cora, Mike and Stevie, students at Cardiff, that haze was shared, their circle tight, a surrogate family, bound together for three idyllic, hedonistic years in total trust. Or so it seemed. Mike and Cora marry after graduation, while Liz and Stevie look on, misty-eyed. The newlyweds move back across the border, Liz starts a career in journalism, and the group 'stays in touch' with growing distance as the routines of work and Mike and Cora's presumed domestic bliss colonise their daily lives. A few years on, the circle reunites, with Mike and Cora returning to live in Cardiff. The foursome paints the town, marking Stevie's birthday in an orgy of nostalgia. As they drink and dance, from nowhere, a beautiful - and younger - flame-haired girl appears. This 'Jenny' seems to recognise them, knows their names...but her identity's a total mystery to them all. Or so Liz and Cora think. Then Mike and Jenny vanish from the bar; and he does not make it home that night. His innocent next-day explanation doesn't quite ring true...and then Jenny reappears. As a corpse, found by the river, foul play presumed. Liz is assigned to cover the story, and finds herself caught up in an expanding web of lies, as Jenny's death is traced back to that fateful night. Threats of blackmail and a nervous breakdown on Cora's part follow. As mutual suspicion mounts, the ancient secrets of their college days begin to catch up with them all...and Liz begins to contemplate a drastic final solution. Unrequited love and murderous intentions meet, in a tangle of fear and confusion that threatens not just Mike and Cora's marriage, but the four friends' cherished past. A murder mystery, full of surprises, Telling Stories subverts and re-invents the chick lit genre in a darker shade of lipstick, marking the emergence of a major new voice in British fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A gripping thriller, Telling Stories explores the boundaries of friendship, envy and obsession. As students, Liz and Cora were best friends. Teamed with Cora's boyfriend Mike and hard-drinking buddy Stevie, they formed a tight clique. However all is not as harmonious as it seems, Liz harbours a secret infatuation for Mike following their one-night stand. Years later the group is reunited over the mysterious death of a women who claimed to have known them. Amidst threats of blackmail and an expanding web of lies, the most unreliable of narrators reveals her murky, hidden depths.

Biographie de l'auteur

Beverley Jones worked as a TV and newspaper journalist in Wales before taking up her current job as a press and media officer. Telling Stories is her first novel, soon to be published in German and Dutch editions. Her second novel, Holiday Money, will be published by Cutting Edge in Summer 2012, and a major film adaptation is currently in development.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cutting Edge Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908122110
• ISBN 13: 9781908122117
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 282
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible