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Liars and Saints

By Maile Meloy

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| Paperback | 9780719566455

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Book Description

With her first novel, Liars and Saints, award-winning author Maile Meloy more than delivers on the promise of her highly acclaimed debut story collection, Half in Love. This richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at theContinue

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Liars and Saints Maile Meloy 260pp, John Murray, £14.99 As one of six books picked out as good summer reads by Richard and Judy's book club, Maile Meloy's debut is poised to benefit from the magic touch of television. It's not hard to see why it was ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Liars and Saints By Maile Meloy

Author of the critically acclaimed short story collection Half in Love, Maile Meloy now tries her hand at writing a complex multi-generational novel. Liars and Saints has the lively feel of a Catholic soap opera in fast-forward, following the Santerr ... (read full critics)

bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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Quite good

No flowery language here. The book is written in a clear-cut concise way. It sometimes reads as a synopsis, which makes it all the more interesting because you can fill in the emotional awkward bits yourself. Generally I'm a big fan of books that span generations and have a few skeletons tumbling ou ... (continue)

No flowery language here. The book is written in a clear-cut concise way. It sometimes reads as a synopsis, which makes it all the more interesting because you can fill in the emotional awkward bits yourself. Generally I'm a big fan of books that span generations and have a few skeletons tumbling out of closets, but this one failed to grab me. Quite good, no better than that.

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