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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

by RebeccaMiller (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $3.36

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    Hardcover 2008

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Synopsis

Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage. It brilliantly reveals the challenges of modern life - and all the possibilities that it holds.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 231
 Edition: Main - Re-issue
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 12 Jun 2008
ISBN 10: 1847672493
ISBN 13: 9781847672490
Book Overview: Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel

Media Reviews
Hugely enjoyable -- INDIA KNIGHT
Like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections without the bitterness, mixed with Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides without the eccentricity, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read' * * Sunday Telegraph * *
Miller is a luminous writer . . . gazing into these multiple private Pippas is like opening a series of Russian dolls, each intricately wrought, self-contained and self-revealing. * * Observer * *
A beautifully layered and subtle novel of identity, with a wonderfully vivid sense of place and character. And it's hesitatingly wise in all sorts of ways, as well as being a deftly constructed page-turner. * * Joseph O'Connor * *
Miller's astute, beautifully nuanced novel explores the unpredictable consequences of choosing to live a safe, but emotionally compromised, life. * * Daily Mail * *
Miller writes with a natural poetic flair that's considered and free from affectation. * * Easy Living * *
With beautiful simplicity, Miller unravels Pippa's past and celebrates the stirrings of something new. * * Good Housekeeping Book of the Month * *
Miller's prose is always sharp and visual without being overly descriptive. All of the descriptions, whether of people, places or emotions manage to be both prosaic and evocative... Although it had come to a natural and perfectly timed conclusion, I could happily have read much more about Pippa Lee and her secret lives. * * Irish Sunday Independent * *
Miller's prose is tight and compelling; it moves in its own fast rhythm, richly packed with images that slice open the text . . . revealing the dark waters beneath. * * The Times * *
This compulsively readable novel shows real insight into the lives - and roles - of women. Miller writes with a rare mix of warmth, veracity and barbed wit. * * Waterstone's Books Quarterly * *
There is on every page a glint of verbal beauty like a jewel, and Miller's characters are so keenly observed as to be almost painful to read about. The novel's wit and glamour make it one of the best debuts of the year so far. * * Literary Review * *
An elegant and trenchant study of roles and reinvention. * * Tatler * *
A gripping story of romantic entaglement * * Red * *
Miller writes particularly well about the complexities of mother-daughter love... excellent and moving * * Guardian * *
Poignant, funny and wise * * Financial Times * *
As the extraordinary details of her early life are retold, Pippa is revealed as a woman of many contradictions, thrillingly flawed * * Psychologies * *
With fabulous writing, a brilliant tale of an adoring housewife struggling to hide her shady past from her oh-so-perfect neighbours * * In Style * *
Has all the wit and pace of Desperate Housewives * * Eva Must Read * *
Author Bio
Rebecca Miller is also the author of Jacob's Folly and the short story collection Personal Velocity, her feature film adaptation of which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee was a Sunday Times bestseller and a Richard and Judy Summer Read 2008 title. She worked as a painter and actress before becoming a writer and director of films including Angela,The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and the most recently, the film adaptation of her novel The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.