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A contemporary novel which combines the intriguing subjects of surrogacy and obsessive love.Tina and Steve seem like the golden couple: rich, good looking with everything they could want except a child of their own. Tina is a very beautiful but temperamental former model, Steve a successful businessman with international interests, but he also wants to develop his stately home in the country as a garden centre and leisure complex. The lynchpin to this enterprise is Louise who, though not unattractive, is solid and sensible and has loyally and devotedly worked for Steve for a number of years, since before his marriage to Tina which came as a shock to her.Louise becomes obsessed with Steve. Her wish to be more closely bound to him leads her to make the radical suggestion that she should be a surrogate mother to his much wanted child by Tina. The consequences of this offer and the effect it has on the relationships not only of the three people most intimately concerned, but also their family and friends, is the subject of this riveting novel.
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Nicola Thorne was born in South Africa and educated at the LSE. A prolific writer of historical and contemporary fiction, she is one of the top PLR earners in the country.
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This audiobook has the ultimate 21st-century love triangle at its center. Loyal Louise admires her friend Steve so much that she decides to help him and his wife have the baby they are unable to have on their own. Louise volunteers to be a surrogate mother for the couple, secretly hoping the child will strengthen her bond with Steve. Joanna David provides an excellent reading of a novel in need of a clear identity. The tone of the work is unclear--what starts as romance takes on the characteristics of a thriller as Louise turns to stalking Steve. The listener gets drawn into the plot, wondering where it will lead and never really getting an answer. L.B.F. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0006513662
- ISBN 13 9780006513667
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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