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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-100684864320
ISBN-139780684864327
eBay Product ID (ePID)954053
Product Key Features
Book TitleLake News
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicRomance / Contemporary, General
GenreFiction
AuthorMelissa Leo, Barbara Delinsky
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight22.3 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-502585
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisWith this powerful story, Barbara Delinsky, the bestselling and acclaimed author of "Coast Road" and "Three Wishes," has written her richest and most exciting novel yet. At its center is Lily Blake, a talented singer who shuns the limelight and cherishes her privacy. Tricked by a devious reporter into unwittingly giving an interview about her friendship with a distinguished churchman -- a newly appointed Cardinal -- she finds herself accused of having had an affair with him. Shocked and dismayed, Lily becomes a pariah and suffers the brutal, ultimate violation of her privacy as headlines all across the country proclaim her guilt. Hounded by the press, fired from her job, deprived of all public freedom, Lily has no choice but to flee. She returns in secret to her hometown of Lake Henry, in a remote, beautiful part of New Hampshire. But, idyllic as it may look, Lake Henry, too, has its secrets. Some were the cause of her leaving home in the first place, so returning to her birthplace and her family is not without its own stress and pain. Driven by the need to exact justice -- and, for herself, some kind of closure -- fr