The Lemon Grove

Walsh, Helen

ISBN 10: 0345813960 / ISBN 13: 9780345813961

Published by Random House Canada, Toronto, 2014

About this Item

First Canadian edition, first printing of this romantic suspense novel. Faint reading creases to the spine. In near fine condition.

Seller Inventory # 33048

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lemon Grove
• Publisher: Random House Canada, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345813960
• ISBN 13: 9780345813961
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • British Authors
  • Romance
  • Suspense

About this title

Synopsis

Set on the rugged, mountainous west coast of Mallorca, this taut, sultry, brilliantly paced novel is an urgent meditation on female desire, the vicissitudes of marriage and the allure of youth.
 
Taking place over the course of one week, The Lemon Grove lands in the heat of Deia, a village on an island off the southeast coast of Spain. Jenn and Greg are on their annual holiday to enjoy languorous, close afternoons by the pool, and relaxed dinners overlooking the rocks. But the equilibrium is upset by the arrival of their teenage daughter, Emma, and her boyfriend, Nathan. Jenn, in her early forties, loves her (older) husband and her (step)daughter and is content with her life, she thinks. But when this beautiful, reckless young man comes into her world, she is caught by a sexual compulsion that she's seldom felt before. As the lines hotly blur between attraction, desire and obsession, Jenn’s world is thrown into tumult--by Nathan's side, she could be young and carefree once again, and at this stage in her life, the promise of youth is every bit as seductive as the promise of passion. Jenn struggles between the conflicting pulls of resistance and release, and the events of the next few days have the potential to put lives in jeopardy as the players carry out their roles in this unstoppably sexy and unputdownable novel from a brilliant observer of the human condition.

About the Author

HELEN WALSH was born in Warrington, England, in 1976. Her first novel, Brass, was published in 2004 and was the winner of a Betty Trask Prize. Her second novel, Once Upon a Time in England, was the winner of a Somerset Maugham Prize, her third novel, Go to Sleep, was published by Canongate to much fanfare in 2011.