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Natalie is a girl who should be going somewhere. Beautiful, bright and ambitious, she's stuck in a dead end job in the accounts department of Nu-Line Telecommunications. Living her life through wild weekends, yearning for something more. When she sees a chance to change her life,... she takes it. After all, its' only a minor crime. Nobody will be hurt, will they? But Colin gets hurt. He's the man who Natalie marries. And other people's lives are changed, terribly and irrevocably. Because Natalie's actions do have consequences - tragic consequences. Poignant and beautifully written, Deborah Moggach's new novel is a cautionary tale about the terrible battle between desires and greed, about human hopes and our own frailty in the face of temptation.
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ISBN |
9780099421931 |
Released NZ |
7 Jun 2002 |
Publisher |
Vintage |
Format |
Paperback, New edition |
Availability |
Indent title (internationally sourced), allow 8-12 weeks
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ISBN-13 |
9780099421931 |
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Stock |
Available |
Status |
Indent title (internationally sourced), allow 8-12 weeks |
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Publisher |
Vintage |
Imprint |
Vintage |
Released |
7 Jun 2002
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Publication Country |
United Kingdom |
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Format |
Paperback, New edition
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Edition |
New edition |
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Author(s) |
By Moggach, Deborah |
Category |
Modern Fiction
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Number of Pages |
240 |
Dimensions |
Width: 130mm Height: 200mm Spine: 15mm |
Dewey Code |
823.914 |
Weight |
178g |
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Interest Age |
General Audience |
Reading Age |
General Audience |
Library of Congress |
Life change events, Fiction, Temptation |
NBS Text |
Romance & Sagas |
ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
NZ Review |
Praise for Tulip Fever : <br> Sumptuous and enthralling... her characters are thoroughly known and their contortions in the cage of materialism are evoked with compassion, wit and humour. - The Times <br> Deborah Moggach can fit a complex idea onto a postage stamp... ordinary human crises are described tersely, compassionately, and with a wit as dry as the Sahara. - Independent |
UK Review |
A well executed, intricately plotted novel which nevertheless disappoints. Natalie is a bright, pretty young woman whose life is too ordinary and disappointing for her ambitions. She works in the accounts department of a large telecommunications company and lives with an unreliable boyfriend in an undesirable area of Leeds. She has no family to speak of: only a mother who appears occasionally and is more of a liability than support, and a father who disappeared when she was a child. So she must take care of herself. A swift and potentially devastating series of events leads Natalie to a position of reckless defiance and she embarks on a career of crime with unforeseen tragic consequences for the innocent lives her actions affect. Deborah Moggach is an experienced writer, good at cutting through cant and self-deceit and dissecting the complex tawdriness at the heart of modern life, but this novel is glib. The major characters, Natalie in particular, are hard to like and it becomes difficult to care about how the plot works itself out, or what happens to their sad, shattered lives (Kirkus UK) |
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Author's Bio
Deborah Moggach is the author of many successful novels including Tulip Fever and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was made into a top-grossing film starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith. Her screenplays include the film of Pride and Prejudice, which was nominated for a BAFTA. She lives in Wales.
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