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COPYRIGHT 2001 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Chauncey Mabe
In Philippa Gregory's latest psychological suspense thriller, novelist Isobel Latimer could be a heroine from one of her own much-admired, little-read literary novels.
A refined, well-educated Englishwoman in middle age, she is forced to choose between personal fulfillment (writing what she wants) and duty (supporting an invalid husband). But whereas Latimer's characters struggle inexorably toward self-sacrifice, and the ennobling suffering sure to follow, Latimer herself lives in a sloppier world.
When Isobel decides to secretly write a salacious commercial novel about a girl kidnapped by a group of libidinous Satanists, the results, far from ennobling, spin into the lurid, sexy and darkly comic.
Happily for readers of "Zelda's Cut," Gregory...
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