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Love Falls
Esther Freud
#UB8062
Paperback, 279 pages; 2007
$13.95
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Sixtyish Lambert Gold and seventeen-year-old Lara Riley are more like polite acquaintances than father and daughter. He's a distinguished lecturer at university; she's the out-of-wedlock child he fathered with a former student. When Lambert invites Lara to accompany him to Tuscany, to the villa of a friend for a summer holiday, Lara happily accepts. It's an opportunity to finally become familiar with her father. An Austrian Jew who was sent to England by his parents before the war, never to see them again, Lambert comes with a lot of proverbial baggage; Lara is just beginning to acquire her share. In Italy, they're whisked into an almost surreal social whirl at the villa next door, occupied by a British millionaire and his tribe of beautiful, sophisticated young adult children. Lara finds love—and hate—in the extended family. With its glamorous, sometimes unsavory characters, enchanting setting (in and around Siena), and eminently likeable protagonist, Love Falls offers exciting reading, with some surprisingly subtle themes.
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