The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee (Canons) - Softcover

Vivacious and intense . . . her psychology is often penetrating . . . the writing is rich in striking images * * Independent * * Miller is a luminous writer . . . gazing into these multiple private Pippas is like opening a series of Russian dolls, each intricately wrought, self-contained and self-revealing -- OLIVIA LAING * * Observer * * Poignant, funny and wise * * Financial Times * * Like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections without the bitterness, mixed with Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides without the eccentricity, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read * * Sunday Telegraph * * A beautifully layered and subtle novel of identity, with a wonderfully vivid sense of place and character. And it's hesitatingly wise in all sorts of ways, as well as being a deftly constructed page-turner. -- JOSEPH O'CONNOR Hugely enjoyable -- INDIA KNIGHT Miller writes with a natural poetic flair that's considered and free from affectation. * * Easy Living * * With beautiful simplicity, Miller unravels Pippa's past and celebrates the stirrings of something new. * * Good Housekeeping Book of the Month * * Miller's prose is always sharp and visual without being overly descriptive. All of the descriptions, whether of people, places or emotions manage to be both prosaic and evocative... Although it had come to a natural and perfectly timed conclusion, I could happily have read much more about Pippa Lee and her secret lives. * * Irish Sunday Independent * * Miller's prose is tight and compelling; it moves in its own fast rhythm, richly packed with images that slice open the text . . . revealing the dark waters beneath. * * The Times * * This compulsively readable novel shows real insight into the lives - and roles - of women. Miller writes with a rare mix of warmth, veracity and barbed wit. * * Waterstone's Books Quarterly * * There is on every page a glint of verbal beauty like a jewel, and Miller's characters are so keenly observed as to be almost painful to read about. The novel's wit and glamour make it one of the best debuts of the year so far. * * Literary Review * * An elegant and trenchant study of roles and reinvention. * * Tatler * * A gripping story of romantic entaglement * * Red * * Miller writes particularly well about the complexities of mother-daughter love... excellent and moving * * Guardian * * Miller's astute, beautifully nuanced novel explores the unpredictable consequences of choosing to live a safe, but emotionally compromised, life. * * Daily Mail * * As the extraordinary details of her early life are retold, Pippa is revealed as a woman of many contradictions, thrillingly flawed * * Psychologies * * With fabulous writing, a brilliant tale of an adoring housewife struggling to hide her shady past from her oh-so-perfect neighbours * * In Style * * Has all the wit and pace of Desperate Housewives * * Eva Must Read * *

Pippa seems to have everything in life. But suddenly she finds her world beginning to unravel. Amid the buzzing lawnmowers and suburban coffee mornings, she starts to wonder how she came to be in this place. The answer is a story of wild youth, unexpected encounters, affairs and betrayals, and the dangerous security of marriage. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee brilliantly reveals the challenges of modern life - and all the possibilities that it holds.