The Hamilton Case
Author | : Michelle de Kretser |
Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2007-09-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780316028189 |
ISBN-13 | : 0316028185 |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A flamboyant beauty who once partied with the Prince of Wales and who now, in her seventh decade, has "gone native" in a Ceylonese jungle. A proud, Oxford-educated lawyer who unwittingly seals his own professional fate when he dares to solve the sensational Hamilton murder case that has rocked the upper echelons of local society. A young woman who retreats from her family and the world after her infant brother is found suffocated in his crib. These are among the linked lives compellingly portrayed in a novel everywhere hailed for its dazzling grace and savage wit -- a spellbinding tale of family and duty, of legacy and identity, a novel that brilliantly probes the ultimate mystery of what makes us who we are.