Laws of Contrition - Softcover

Thompson, Valerie Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956585930 ISBN 13: 9780956585936

Publisher: Calmrise, 2012

Synopsis

A raw, and realistic up-to-date (story opens in March, 2008) novel about life on and off the trading floor. Set in London, within an American investment bank, this is a fast flowing tale about debt and dysfunction, deception, lust, and old fashioned love, where there are as many winners as losers. Or perhaps everyone's a winner. Even the dead.

About this title

From the Author:

What was your experience writing it, and how does it relate to other books you've written?
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Laws of Contrition took years to come out of me, and I was kicking and screaming a lot (most) of the way. I had long wanted to write a novel, but life was such that I didn't have the peace and quiet and time to do so, until my youngest left home. When he did, I quit paid work and relocated from London to the coast, where I was out of invitations way so to speak, as I love seeing people. That was in the summer of 2004, and I penned my first words in Feb, 2005. It went through many rewrites, and of course a major one after the debt crisis. And while, as far back as 2007, I kept telling myself I was finished, I kept making changes. Then the debt crisis came along. Thereafter, it was the same again, with my telling myself I was done as far back as late 2009, and yet still I continued to cut swathes of it and rewrite. And then, finally, I realised I was truly done. Suddenly, it felt complete, like it was all over. Tanya was where she needed and wanted to be. She, I realise, was the one I had to satisfy. And she's tough. Not sure I'd want to do battle with her in real life.

From the Back Cover:

Where does need end and greed begin?
Can we ever break free of our past?
Does willpower stand in the way of destiny?

City Trader Tanya Pryce, an indifferent wife but devoted mum, has spent sixteen years working her way up at American investment bank, Kohen Stanzinger. Then Nathan Harvey Walthak is foisted on her, and her economist colleague, Spencer Rivington, suddenly finds her irresistibly sexy. It's March, 2008. The financial crisis is looming.

Tanya's dislike of Nathan is disturbingly intense, as is her lust for Spencer, but she keeps her feelings for both under wraps. Until Nathan does a bad trade that ruins her track record, and which she suspects was no accident. This heralds the start of a private rebellion and unleashing of her deep longing for intimacy.

Tanya is desperate to make back the money Nathan lost. She's head of her desk and the main breadwinner. Banks start collapsing. Her neurotic mother plays extra-sick. Spencer continues to pursue her. Tanya loves her children, but not her husband.

No stranger to risk or suffering, Tanya is used to fighting her own battles, her own way, and keeping her mouth shut. But is this her nemesis? After she returns to her native East End to hand over money to a private detective, she fears it is. Diverse lives collide in shocking fashion, and make headline news around the world. Tanya has good reason to fear.

A racy tale about debt and dysfunction, deception, lust, and old fashioned love, where there are as many winners as losers. Or perhaps everyone's a winner. Even the dead.

About this edition

• Publisher: Calmrise
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0956585930
• ISBN 13: 9780956585936
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 494