This is a signed proof copy in very good condition.  It was published by John Murray in 2004.

'This novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships.  Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from World War II to the present.  In a family driven as much by jealousy and propriety as by love, an unspoken tradition of deceit is passed from generation to generation.  When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together.  By turns funny and disturbing, irreverent and profound, Liars and Saints is a masterful display of Maile Meloy's prodigious gifts and of her penetrating insight into an extraordinary American family and into the nature of human love.'

Condition:

Book - Very Good - minor rubbing/bumping/wear to the corners, edges and covers, slight marking and a v.small knock to the page edges and slight, but even, tanning to the pages.

This is an ARC (Advance Reader’s Copy), also called a Proof Copy.  They are far rarer than First Editions as they are printed in small numbers for circulation to, among others, friends and family of the author and reviewers (for their revision, analysis and feedback prior to the book's publication).

 

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