Father of Lies

by Janet Inglis

Book Overview

Featuring many of the characters who first appeared in DADDY'S GIRL, a multi-layered novel about a family split by deceit when a young woman arrives in England to discover who her real father is. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552142085
• ISBN13: 9780552142083
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Corgi
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.2" x 1.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A mother's sins return to haunt her

It is twenty-two years since Georgiana Payne was conceived in illegal circumstances. Returning to the country of her birth from Canada she arrives in East Sussex, searching for the family her mother so mysteriously left behind all those years ago, and hoping to unearth the secret behind her mother's departure.In retreading the the steps made by her mother Georgie reawakens the memories left in the shadows at the end of 'Daddy's Girl', Inglis's haunting first novel. The lost innocence of that book - exploring, in explicit detail, the sexual nature of the central character's life - has evolved here into an engagingly sexual who-dun-it; Inglis peeling back layer after layer of the murky surface to reveal the detail of the lives that serve to fuel Georgie's growing - and increasingly dangerous - curiosity.The arrival of Olivia partway through Father of Lies, returning to England in the aftermath of Georgie's shocking accident, achieves what few authors have ever successfully managed: ageing a character from adolescence into adulthood, and making the transition so natural that the joins don't show. Back in England for the first time since a teenager this now thirty-seven-year-old wife and mother of two is forced to confront her past and the incendiary secret that lies at the heart of her family, but yet is known only to two members. It is then she realises her daughter has all but discovered the reason for her own abrupt departure all those years before, and with it the man responsible for her scandalous past.Thought-provoking, unflinching, and containing subject matter that will either tease, tantalise, (or maybe even worse!) Inglis, once again, has created a little piece of magic from a dark and compelling storyline. Pure, driven class from a writer at the height of her powers. Bring on the next one, Janet.