Plain, Belva
After the Fire Belva Plain - New York Delacorte Press, 2000. - 342 p. 25 cm.
In her stunning new novel, New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain has written a compelling story of family and fortune, beauty and betrayal. With unerring insight and emotional power, she penetrates a shattered marriage to explore one of the most provocative issues of our time.
What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves? In her unsparing evocation of a family in crisis, Belva Plain goes to the heart of a marriage between a naïve young artist and her handsome physician husband. At first everything is idyllic. Then one terrible night she commits an act she will regret for the rest of her life. An act that gives her husband the ultimate weapon: blackmail. The price of his silence is uncontested custody of their two children.
0385334702
00023258
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Custody of children--Fiction.
Extortion--Fiction.
PS3566.L254 / A69 2000b
Pla 2
After the Fire Belva Plain - New York Delacorte Press, 2000. - 342 p. 25 cm.
In her stunning new novel, New York Times bestselling author Belva Plain has written a compelling story of family and fortune, beauty and betrayal. With unerring insight and emotional power, she penetrates a shattered marriage to explore one of the most provocative issues of our time.
What happens when the picture-perfect marriage dissolves? In her unsparing evocation of a family in crisis, Belva Plain goes to the heart of a marriage between a naïve young artist and her handsome physician husband. At first everything is idyllic. Then one terrible night she commits an act she will regret for the rest of her life. An act that gives her husband the ultimate weapon: blackmail. The price of his silence is uncontested custody of their two children.
0385334702
00023258
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Custody of children--Fiction.
Extortion--Fiction.
PS3566.L254 / A69 2000b
Pla 2