Faithless / Alice Nelson.
Publication details: Milsons Point, NSW : Vintage Australia, 2022.Description: 311 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780143791201
- 0143791206
- Australian fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Attachment behavior -- Fiction
- Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction
- Deception
- Adultery -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- Love -- Fiction
- Deception -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Translators -- Fiction
- India -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction
- AUS fiction (Australia,Western Australia)
- A823.4 23
- PR8297.E32 F35 2022
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | NEL | Available | 071292 |
Scheduled to be published August 2022.
Set between India and England, Faithless is the story of Cressida, a writer and translator, and her consuming love for Max, an enigmatic older writer - and married man. Cressida's passion for Max engulfs her from the first giddy rush of sensation when she is eighteen and meets him in the mountains of southern India. It is a desire so potent it delivers great stunning blows to her heart. And yet she can share it with almost no one. Then Cressida meets Leo, and she is forced to choose- between a life of passion or a desire for some peace of mind; between her romantic idealism and the possibility of a steadier, attainable happiness. As the years unfold with both these men, a fragile young child, Flora, also finds her way into Cressida's life and heart, and it is Flora who forces Cressida to confront her own capacity for love and deception, and to accept the compromises life forces on us; the lies we tell in service of those things we cannot live without.
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.