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Doubleday
June 2014
On Sale: June 3, 2014
224 pages
ISBN: 0385538537
EAN: 9780385538534
Kindle: B00HTMBEO8
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Romance Erotica Sensual
A highly charged, sultry, beautifully written and compulsive
one-sit read, The Lemon Grove is an intense novel about
obsession and sex—the perfect summer book. Jenn and Greg have been married for fourteen years, and, as
the book opens, they are enjoying the last week of their
annual summer holiday in Deia, a village in Majorca off the
coast of southern Spain. Their days are languorous, the time
passing by in a haze of rioja-soaked lunches, hours at the
beach, and lazy afternoon sex in their beautiful villa. It
is the perfect summer idyll . . . until Greg's teenage
daughter (Jenn's stepdaughter), Emma, arrives with her new
boyfriend, Nathan, in tow. What follows, over the course of seven days, is a
brilliantly paced fever dream of attraction between Jenn and
the reckless yet mesmerizing Nathan. It is an intense pas de
deux of push and pull, risk and consequence . . . and moral
rectitude, as it gets harder and harder for Jenn to stifle
her compulsion. This is a very smart novel about many things: the loss of
youth, female sexuality, the lure of May/December
temptation, the vicissitudes of marriage and the politics of
other people's children. It is simultaneously sexy and
substantive, and Helen Walsh's masterful, even-handed tone
can't help but force the reader to wonder: "What would I
have done?" Beautifully written with the tension of a rubber band just
about to snap, The Lemon Grove is a book that will have
people talking all summer long.
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