| Edition |
First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
| Description |
450 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
In a story alternating between the past and present, Laura Preston flies to Thailand to meet a stranger claiming to be her lost brother, who disappeared when the Preston family lived in Bangkok forty years ago. |
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Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Bea as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother who disappeared forty years earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, Laura ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. Bangkok, 1972: Genevieve and Robert Preston live in a beautiful house behind a high wall, raising their three children with the help of a cadre of servants. Genevieve strives to create a semblance of the life they would have had at home in the US: ballet and riding classes for the children, impeccable dinner parties, a meticulously kept home. But Robert works for American intelligence, and as Genevieve finds herself drawn into a passionate affair with her husband's boss their serene household is vulnerable to unseen dangers in a rapidly changing world and a country they don't really understand. -- adapted from jacket |
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Siblings -- Fiction.
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Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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Intelligence officers -- Fiction.
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Adultery -- Fiction.
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Bangkok (Thailand) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
1982150610 (hardcover) |
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9781982150617 (hardcover) |
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