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One day a woman meets a man and falls instantly and irrevocably in love with him. It hits her like a thunderbolt, and she has to have him, has to be with him, regardless of the cost, of the pain of breaking up her existing relationship. She has never felt more in synch - or in love - with anyone in her whole life. So this is how it feels, she thinks to herself, this is what real love feels like. It's like that for him too; he wants her in a way he's never wanted anything or anyone before: obsessively, passionately, all-consumingly.
She has found her one true love, her soulmate, and he has found his. What happens next will tear them apart and unleash havoc onto their worlds.
This brave, brilliant, electrifying novel from the acclaimed author of After the Fall and Last Summer, will move you deeply and shock you to your core. Love, lust and longing have rarely wielded such power, nor family secrets triggered such devastation.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Dedication:
For Cameron and Declan.
My daughter, my son.
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Epigraph:
A love story is not about those who lose their hart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing – not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past. –Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient.
I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms.
–Nick Cave, 'Into My Arms'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 April 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel ; Into My Arms 2013 single work novel -
[Untitled]
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 May 2013; (p. 30)
— Review of Into My Arms 2013 single work novel
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Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 April 2013; (p. 26)
— Review of Harmless 2013 single work novel ; Into My Arms 2013 single work novel -
[Untitled]
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 May 2013; (p. 30)
— Review of Into My Arms 2013 single work novel