Lioness

Three decades ago Teresa Holder, from a grim working-class suburb of the Hutt Valley, married the older, wealthy Trevor Thorne, became Therese and, with his backing, built up a chain of homeware shops. To his four adult children and his old-money clan she is still not one of them. Then, at the end of 2016, talk of corruption swirls around a building project of Trevor's, he is charged with fraud, and the consequences arrive fast. Therese grows close to Claire, who lives downstairs in the family's apartment block and is throwing out her belongings and dancing through the night. With her, Therese starts to look hard at her comfortable world, her own buried rage, and what an honest life might be.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

278 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

New Zealand, 2016

First published

2023 by Bloomsbury Circus

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9781526660664 (Bloomsbury Circus, United Kingdom)

9781526660688 (Bloomsbury Publishing, United Kingdom)