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Open Road Integrated Media LLC
June 2014
On Sale: June 8, 2014
Featuring: Oliver Marbalestier; Virginia Marbalestier; Jill Marbalestier
278 pages
ISBN: 1480463310
EAN: 9781480463318
Kindle: B00HUILO6E
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Contemporary | Women's Fiction
Janet Burrowayβs critically acclaimed novel, which the New Yorker hailed as βenormously enjoyableβ and Newsweek called βa novel of rare and lustrous quality,β is the story of a woman whose unraveling marriage sends her on a personal odyssey halfway around the world to Japan Virginia Marbalestier has come a long way from the California trailer park where she grew up. Now a designer at the textile firm where her husband is the number-two executive, as the mother of a young daughter and the mistress of an English Tudor manor, she has it all. But her husband, Oliver, is becoming increasingly elitist and controlling, resentful of her friendships, and rough in bed. The arrival of a new employee, a distressed young woman in whom Virginia finds the missing threads of her own identity, and the firmβs possible merger with a Japanese competitor heighten the tensions between Virginia and Oliver, and impel Virginia to set off on a foreign adventure that will change her life forever
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