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When four friends reconnect at a school reunion each played her part too well. On the surface Leith is the happily married society wife - yet no one could guess at her shocking secret life. Cate, single, with a brilliant career, lacks the courage to risk everything to get what she really wants. Rory, a successful editor, has overruled her partner’s qualms to have a baby before it is too late - then finds herself paying a price she could never have foreseen.

An intriguing tale of power, corruption, secrets and love that will thrill you from start to finish! Against backdrops of London, Paris, Warsaw and Sydney, Marianne, a beautiful European refugee, marries into a wealthy establishment family. But a mystery lies at the heart of the unusual union. Haunted by her past and rejected by a powerful mother-in-law who is determined to destroy this nobody who has ‘trapped’ her son, Marianne is pushed to the edge. In the scandal that follows, she is forced to pay a shocking price.

Kate Grenville had always associated perfume with elegance and beauty. Then the headaches started. Like perhaps a quarter of the population, Grenville reacts badly to the artificial fragrances around us: other people’s perfumes and all those scented cosmetics, cleaning products and air fresheners.