False Pretences
Lee Langley
  • Published: 15 October 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273158
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99

False Pretences

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Teasing out the extraordinary within the everyday, FALSE PRETENCES is a contemporary novel in mosiac. Through the separate yet interlinked stories, it traces the lives of two women as they deal with the complexities of love, private terrors, violence and - most precarious of all - hope. There is mystery, wry humour, sometimes tragedy beneath the jaunty surfaces glimpsed through the years, until, by the end, we have encompassed their lives.
  • Published: 15 October 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273158
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Lee Langley

Lee Langley is the author of nine highly praised novels including Changes of Address (shortlisted for the Hawthornden Prize) and Persistent Rumours (winner of a Commonwealth Writers' prize). Her most recent book was A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire, a volume of short stories, poetry and journalism. Her adaptation 'The Tenth Man', based on a Graham Greene story, was made into an award-winning movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.

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Praise for False Pretences

It is a tribute to Lee Langley's controlled style and wit that by the end you long to start the book again.

Daily Telegraph

A stunning collection of short stories, each of which stands alone, yet is satisfyingly linked . . . Langley is a talented chronicler of the human condition.

Daily Mail

A series of delicately fashioned cameos . . . tantalising and satisfying.

Sunday Times