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"Conscience Point" sprang from many sources, one a visit to 19th century writer George Sand's manor house in deep France, where I'd traveled on assignment. Sitting on Sand's evening terrace sipping a Kir; wandering the country roads after dinner -- with a stop at Sand's moonlit graveyard -- I knew I had to set a scene in this spot.
Some of the hauntedness of that place rubbed off on "Conscience Point." It's about a mysterious love with two faces; and about nostalgia for the sort of youthful passion that's seldom equaled in later life. A genre-bending novel (as we say in film-speak), it mixes heartbreak and Gothic atmospherics with a biting satire of East Coast high fliers. Since my heroine is a concert pianist, it's a novel filled with music and inspired by music -- in particular, Chopin's "Harp Etude." I designed "Conscience Point" to keep your fingers turning pages. And I hope you'll also feel buoyed by a story about soldiering on when your old world collapses, finding renewal beyond revenge, and reinventing your life.
Here's my publisher's take on CONSCIENCE POINT:
This genre-bending novel mixes shocking heartbreak, Gothic atmospherics, and an exquisite satire of New York's high-stakes players in a story that promises something for everyone.
A talented and successful woman entranced with a mega-wealthy family. A shocking betrayal that exposes the myriad pasts of characters "rotten with secrets". A good healthy dose of mother-daughter drama. And the realization of a dream...reclaimed later in life.
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“Erica Abeel's Conscience Point is very sharp indeed…funny and sexy and smart… you'll fly through it." -- Alan Furst, author of The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel
posted by ericaabeel at 12:43 pm (EST) on Dec 1, 2008