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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-Benjamin’s 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 children’s
intense need for one another until it’s too late. Her
beloved son’s 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 husband’s
business associate and his jealous wife, Miranda. Thrilled
to be invited into the beautiful and enigmatic Adora’s
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 love’s
true power.
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