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Loading... Saffron Skies (2005)by Lesley Lokko
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Max Sall, powerful, wealthy and utterly ruthless, a man without a past. His wife, Angela, a society debutante who fell in love with the dark, handsome chauffeur, and broke her parents' hearts when she married him. His mistress: Francesca, the glamorous Alitalia air stewardess, who saw in Max her ticket out of the Italian provinces and grabbed it - and him - with both hands. And his daughters: Amber, more like her father than she'll ever know - smart, shrewd and determined to achieve, whatever the cost; and Paola, groomed by her mother to succeed where she failed, in getting a man to marry her. Max's women are very different, but they all demand his attention. While Amber and Paola are growing up in the 1970s, their mothers somehow find a way to share Max between them. But when Amber and Paola fall in love with the same man two decades later, they're determined that this time there will be no sharing... Moving effortlessly across five decades, SAFFRON SKIES is a magnificent story of sisters, friends, families and love from Lesley Lokko, one of the most outstanding new voices in commercial fiction. No library descriptions found. |
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The book tells the story of Amber, Becky and Madeline since young and continue well into their adulthood, evolving around their love, family and friendship. Amber, at first, was a inferior little girl has become someone who is mature enough to handle hardship in live unlike Becky, who always been a good and obedient girl, have somehow ended up being a problematic girl. As the story progressed, one would notice that Becky has become besotted with Amber's achievement begin to imitate and strive to obtain what she has. Madeline, on the other hand was someone who experience sadness at such a tender year, is being tested again and again. The hardship and struggle between all three of them, make me realise just how realistic the life is between them and that one can make the difference only if they want to. (