Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts
Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts
Author: Laura Benedict
Desc: Growing up Roxanne Del and Alice tested the limits of their friendship with cruel and often dangerous games - safe in the knowledge that they were bound together forever. Now Alice's marriage is over and her husband is having a child with another woman. Roxanne an artist consumed by her work is losing touch with her friends - and perhaps with reality. And Del is desperate to be a perfect wife and adoring stepmother but her friends see that her careful façade is crumbling. The instrument of their destruction is the enigmatic Varick. He seems to be a lonely woman's dream come true but as he seduces each of the women in turn their lives become unrecognisable to them - and their souls perhaps irretrievable. Varick's secret lies buried in their shared past. One simple childish act has brought them all these years later to a place where their lives are at risk. For once upon a time the three of them agreed to tell a lie - one that ruined a life ... And now they all must live with the consequences....