by Laura Shaine Cunningham (Author)
Why is Juliana always cast as the victim in her films? It's her eyes: 'they widen so nicely in terror'. In movies, she has been stabbed, bludgeoned and, once, impaled upon a decorative sword. Now it may be that her once-loving husband is trying to kill her - or has Juliana become too suggestible? The elements - a frozen corpse, a stalker and a high-voltage courtroom drama - echo her starring roles, but where is her romantic saviour? The police show no signs of being knights in shining armour; her lawyer just wants her money: life, she discovers, is very different from the movies. Even the charm of her lake-resort town turns out to be a facade, hiding a divorce-and-dysfunction cottage industry. Taut as a thriller and beautifully written, Dreams of Rescue turns the female-in-peril story on its head, illuminating the secrets of a dangerous marriage and creating a contemporary tale as powerful as the classics Rebecca and Gaslight.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 21 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 0747577935
ISBN 13: 9780747577935
Book Overview: A novel by the highly acclaimed author of Sleeping Arrangements Sleeping Arrangements has sold 3,500 copies in hardback and over 5K in paperback so far Sleeping Arrangements and Beautiful Bodies both received outstanding reviews