Used very good, BCA edition.
Four women in their forties-elegant,
successful., sophisticated-have been called to
the PierreHotel in New York to meet Lili, the
world famous film star.
Already a legend, despite her youth, Lili is
beautiful, passionate- and notoriously
temperamental... Each of the four has
reason to hate Lili. Each is astonished to see
the others. For Pagan, the quiet English
aristocrat, Kate, the best-scling writer,
Maxine, the haute bourgeoise Parisienne, and
Judy, the tough editor-in-chiefof America's
most outspoken women's nagazine, are old
friends who first met at school, old friends
who share a guilty secret, and old friends
whose lives are suddenly changed when Lili
confronts them with the startling question,
Which one of you bitches is my mother?
The answer to this question-a question
that has obsessed and almost destroyed Lili-
lies at thec heart of Lac. From the clegant
congregate, the book traces not only the
-but the lives of che four women, one of
Swiss finishing school in Gstaad to the
glittering places where the rich and sucoessful
fortunes ofLili herself-abandoned, seduced,
exploited, yet at last rising to triumph asa star
whom is her mother.
ShirleyConran has captured the intimate
secrets, the guilts and passions ofevery
woman who has experienced the childhood
dreams of great romance, and the realities of
womanhood. The result is a spell-binding
novel offemininity-as fragile as lace, as
intricatcly woven, as subtde, and as strong