Art & Lies Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003) It's every mother's nightmare

It's every mother's nightmare

and thirty-eight thousand books helped a small town find its heart

Glinda is under house arrest

including many provided by families and never before published

Her friends insist an around-the-world sex-fueled adventure will solve all her problems - could they be right

Art & Lies Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003) It's every mother's nightmareHandel is a failed priest but abiding Catholic with elitist tendencies whose work as a doctor forces him to consider social questions that he would probably rather avoid. Picasso, as she calls herself, is a young artist who has been sexually abused by her brother but whose family thinks she is at fault for her dark moods. Sappho is, indeed, Sappho, the lesbian poet of ancient Greece, who here proclaims herself a sensualist and then proceeds to dissect