Sisters: A Novel - Hardcover

Leith, Prue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312287798 ISBN 13: 9780312287795

Verlag: Thomas Dunne Books, 2002

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Growing up in the outback of South Africa, sensible Poppy realized she would always have to look out for her younger sister, the beautiful, wild, and unreliable Carrie.

Years later, in London, Poppy, a stage actress with three children and a charming, handsome husband, never imagines that Carrie, now a sexy and passionate caterer, would try to hurt her. But Carrie can't help herself. She's resentful that Poppy has everything she always wanted: a successful, fulfilling career, a gorgeous husband, a loving family, a house in the country, while Carrie has nothing but debts, one-night-stands, and an uncertain future. Carrie discovers the chink in Poppy's armor, her husband Eduardo, and she sets out to exploit it in the way she knows best. She provides Eduardo with danger, excitement, and great sex - all things that have faded in Eduardo and Poppy's marriage. But in destroying her sister's peace of mind, Carrie risks losing all those who love her.

Prue Leith has written a poignant and moving story about the real choices siblings have to make once they grow up and start taking stock of their lives. Sisters is a brilliantly crafted portrait of sibling rivalry, love, and the ultimate betrayal.

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Prue Leith is one of England's top chefs and food celebrities. Her Leith's Restaurant and Leith's School of Food and Wine have made her a culinary star, as did her newspaper columns, 12 cookbooks, and television shows, "Take Six Cooks" and "Tricks of the Trade". She has two grown children, and lives with her husband Rayne in Oxfordshire, England. She is also the author of the novel, Leaving Patrick.

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Leith is one of England's top chefs with a restaurant and several cookbooks and televisions shows to her credit. Last year, she added novelist to her resume‚ with the publication of Leaving Patrick. In her follow-up, we meet older sister Poppy, a smart, caring actress with a loving husband and children, and Carrie, the beautiful, charming, unreliable younger sibling who lives on the edge. Throughout their childhood, Poppy looked after Carrie, and she continues to do so, bailing her sibling out of financial jams and helping in her career. Her loyalty never falters until Carrie crosses the line and goes after Poppy's husband. Leith's tale of sibling rivalry and rebuilding relationships after an affair is interspersed with wonderful scenes of food preparation, banquets, and magazine shoots. First published in England, Sisters should enjoy the same success as Leaving Patrick. For popular fiction collections and wherever her previous book was in demand. Kathy Ingels Helmond, Indianapolis-Marion Cty. P.L.
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Celebrity chef Leith struck gold in her native Britain with Leaving Patrick, a light tale of love lost and regained, plumped up with plenty of elaborate culinary arrangements. In her sophomore effort, an equally conventional conceit is augmented by its larger-than-life protagonists. When we first meet sisters Carrie and Poppie, Carrie is playing with a gun, and the wiser Poppy not only assesses the danger of the situation, she also knows the most effective tactic to get the gun away. This scene is a sort of template for their entire relationship: Carrie is a beautiful, screwed-up alcoholic who sleeps around and envies Poppy her successful career and family; Poppy, a successful actress, is overweight, has a husband and three children, and envies Carrie her beauty and devil-may-care airs. At the height of her self-destructiveness, Carrie begins an affair with Eduardo, Poppy's husband. In almost no time, everyone seems to know, from Eduardo's outspoken mother to his and Poppy's longtime staff; finally Poppy figures it out, too. The rest of the book is devoted to cleaning up the mess. The subject matter is weighty, the authorial touch is featherlight, and things work out just as expected. Despite the sentimental ending, there is enough strife to make the story believable, and Leith doesn't shy away from complicated, heavily populated plot lines. This is a good-hearted romp that manages everything from the lascivious particulars of Carrie's dissolution to lavish culinary and wildlife details, without skimping on the inevitable happy ending.
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Poppy and Carrie, sisters raised in South Africa, pass into adulthood with their close relationship intact. Although Poppy has become a celebrated actress and is happily married with children (both her own and an adopted African child), Carrie continues to search for fulfillment, her unsettled life seemingly a reaction to her sister's success. Looking for a weak point in her sister's life--less out of malice than simple adolescent sibling rivalry--Carrie finds the means of vengeance in her philandering brother-in-law's lust and adds him to her series of lovers. The author's experience as a successful London chef appears in her use of food imagery, from the banquets that Carrie organizes as a London caterer and food stylist to the fearful way baby Lorato, Poppy's African daughter, cries in alarm whenever someone takes even excess food from her grasp. Leith knows how to move a story forward compellingly, and the book's screenplay potential jumps from every page. Mark Knoblauch
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thomas Dunne Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0312287798
• ISBN 13: 9780312287795
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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