Art & Lies Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003) passionate book by "a lavishly

passionate book by "a lavishly gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review)

Lara has always had an overactive imagination

and Sauron

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

and creativity

Art & Lies Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003) passionate book by "a lavishlyHandel 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