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Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
June 2010
On Sale: June 8, 2010
Featuring: Sophie; Adora
400 pages
ISBN: 1439153949
EAN: 9781439153949
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Women's Fiction
In the tradition of bestselling authors Ian McEwan and Anne Enright, Samantha Bruce-Benjaminβs brilliant and timeless debut unveils the dark side of human nature as four women share the poignant tale of love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal that binds them forever. Have we all not wished to keep forever the one person we love the most? The secluded beaches of a sun-drenched Mediterranean island are the perfect playground for young Sebastian and Adora. Emotionally adrift from their mother, Adora shelters her sensitive older brother from the cruelties of the world. Sophie does not question her childrenβs intense need for one another until itβs too late. Her beloved sonβs affections belong to Adora, and when he drowns in the sea, she has no one else to blame. Still heartbroken years later, Adora fills her emptiness with Genevieve, the precocious young daughter of her husbandβs business associate and his jealous wife, Miranda. Thrilled to be invited into the beautiful and enigmatic Adoraβs world, the child idolizes her during their summers together. Yet, as the years progress, Genevieve begins to suspect their charmed existence is nothing more than a carefully crafted illusion. Soon, she too is ensnared in a web of lies. Stunningly told in the tragic voices of four women whose lives are fatefully entangled, The Art of Devotion is evocative and haunting, a story of deceit, jealousy, and the heartbreaking reality of loveβs true power.
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