Présentation de l'éditeur
Patrick Parker, golden child of bomb-devastated Coventry, adored and encouraged by his mother, fulfils his dream destiny to be a bridge builder as great as Brunel. Audrey Wapshott, born at the same time, feels her destiny is to become the wife of handsome, brilliant Patrick. But Patrick has other plans and Audrey, miserable and abandoned, is left to follow her own journey to self-fulfilment beginning in Paris, and sinfulness, in the arms of a much older man. When their paths cross years later, wicked Audrey plots a grand and satisfying retribution.
Biographie de l'auteur
Mavis Cheek was born and grew up in Wimbledon. She began her working life at Editions Alecto, the contemporary art publishers. After Alecto, she attended Hillcroft College for Women from where she graduated in Arts. After her daughter Bella was born, she began her writing career in earnest; journalism and travel writing at first, then short stories, and eventually, in 1988, her novel
Pause Between Acts
was published by Bodley Head and won the
She/John Menzies First Novel Prize. She is the author of thirteen novels novels including
Mrs Fytton's Country Life,
Janice Gentle Gets Sexy and, most recently,
Amenable Women which was described in
The Times as 'a brilliantly funny, warm, intelligent read'. She now lives and writes in the heart of the English countryside..
