Puppet

Joy Fielding

ISBN 10: 0385660545 / ISBN 13: 9780385660549

Published by Doubleday Canada/Random House Canada Ltd. Toronto, 2005

About this Item

first Canadian edition (preceded by the 2005 U.S. hardcover release) first printing of a fine hardcover in a fine dustjacket. featuring Amanda Travis, a defense attorney, living in Palm Beach Florida USA who returns to her hometown of Toronto On Canada to defend her mother who is charged with murder. This copy is signed by the author on the title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Puppet
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada/Random House Canada Ltd. Toronto
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385660545
• ISBN 13: 9780385660549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

In this new page-turner by New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding, the life of a beautiful young defense attorney is thrown into turmoil when she is called back to her hometown to defend her disturbed, estranged mother, who publically shot and killed a man.

High-powered, twenty-eight-year-old defense attorney Amanda Travis likes several things: the colour black, lunchtime Spinning classes at the fitness centre on Clematis Street in downtown Palm Beach; her all-white one-bedroom, oceanfront condo; a compliant jury; men whose wives don’t understand them.

Some of the things she doesn’t: the colour pink; when the temperature outside her condo’s floor-to-ceiling windows falls below sixty-five degrees; clients who don’t follow her advice; being asked to show I.D. when she goes to a bar; nicknames of any shape or size.

Something else Amanda Travis doesn’t like: memories.

But when Ben, the first of her two ex-husbands, calls from her hometown of Toronto with the alarming news that her mother has shot and killed a man in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel, it becomes more and more difficult for Amanda to continue running from her past. Now she must return to face her demons and the life she left behind — a love that once consumed her and a mother who holds a strange, dark power over everyone she encounters. “Puppet” is the nickname Amanda’s mother once called her. But now Amanda is determined to fight her mother’s fatal whims — even if it kills her.

About the Author

Joy Fielding is the award-winning author of more than a dozen novels, including The First Time, Don’t Cry Now and, most recently, Lost. A graduate of the University of Toronto, she lives with her family in Toronto and Palm Beach.