Puppet.PUPPET. Joy Fielding Joy Fielding (née Tepperman) (born 18 March 1945) is a Canadian novelist and actress. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. Biography Born in Toronto, Ontario, she is a graduate of the University of Toronto. . 2005. Read by Laura Hicks. BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Audiobooks America. 0-7927-34203. $99.95. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. A After a loveless childhood, a difficult adolescence, and her father's death, Amanda Travis flees Toronto for Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach is an incorporated town in Palm Beach County, Florida. The Intracoastal Waterway separates it from the neighboring cities of West Palm Beach and Lake Worth. As of 2000, Palm Beach had a year-round population of 10,468, with an estimated seasonal population of 30,000. and doesn't look back. We meet her nearly a decade later as a twice-divorced, world-weary criminal defense attorney whose jaded cynicism belies her 28 years. Then Amanda learns that her estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. mother has been charged with murder and that her lawyer is Amanda's first ex-husband. She returns to Canada where her present collides with her long-buried past. Despite a contrived premise, this thriller is gripping, jet-propelled by solid suspense writing, an attractively complex protagonist, and more than a few surprises. The storyline contains some casual sex and incest and occasionally uses strong language. Hicks's reading deflates Amanda's caustic humor, but she capably manages multiple accents and is especially good during dramatic high points. Francine Levitov, Attorney, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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