- Paperback: 314 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (1 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099272792
- ISBN-13: 978-0099272793
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 762,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Palliser Wentwood, dangerously charming, has run away to England, leaving his farm in New Zealand, his beautiful wife Salome, his daughters, and his many creditors. Palliser is in search of a fortune, enough to restore the prosperity of farm and family. In Thule Hall, Herts, live the Lovelaces - Hubert and Blanche, brother and sister -both amazingly tall and immensely fat, shy and gothically retired. Engaged as butler, and posing as a grieving widower, Palliser turns his charms on Blanche, teasing out laughter and beauty where before there was only timidity. But will his deception succeed? Can he bring himself to ruin her? Or will Salome succumb to the gentle siege of Philip Butterworth, solicitor and suitor? An exceptional first novel, wise and funny and sad in equal measure, and peopled by a cast of characters as singular as they are delightful.
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(Mail on Sunday) Salome Wentwood, the heroine, is encountered, shotgun in hand, preparing to drive away predators from her New Zealand farm. There's a hint of Hardy's Bathsheba about her - and the four daughters who watch the local bachelors come a-courting. Palliser Wentwood, absent husband, is in England, trying to talk his way into money. He begins as a butler, seducing his vulnerable employer. A well-written first novel that shows talent.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A delight and a joy...,
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This review is from: The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood (Paperback)
Palliser Wentwood - thief, liar, lover, conman, married man. Cut off without a penny from his noble Irish family, he must wander the world and look out for himself. And he does! He marries an Englishwoman with money, takes her to New Zealand and buys a farm. When he has remortgaged the land, and entirely run out of her money, he leaves her with 4 daughters and heads off to make a fortune and bail them out. A couple of months, a year, two years, and no letters, no messages come back for Salome, his wife, who loves him unconditionally. I got this book some time ago, and put off reading it as frankly, no idea what made me go for it in the first place, with its plain black and white cover, and no description on the back cover, only snippets of reviews. But eventually it fell into my hands and now, into my heart. No violence. Hardly any sex. But a magical little tale which should get more reads. Hopefully someone else besides me will find this and read about Palliser's adventures. Most of us have met someone like him, perhaps in the pub, a man full of charm, clean, wellkept, storyteller. Perhaps he bought you a drink once?
4.0 out of 5 stars
What a surprise!,
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This review is from: The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood (Paperback)
I bought this book when I had bronchitus and was off work.I really wasn't sure what it was going to be like. I was so surprised that I actually enjoyed the book all the more. A fantastic story, so unlike anything that I had ever read before, and beautifully told - not complicated or confusing - just a really good yarn where you like or dislike characters and feel absorbed in the story. I have recommended this book to friends and they have enjoyed it just as much as I did.
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3.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Odd and fascinating story,
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This review is from: The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood (Hardcover)
WHO IS THE NARRATOR? She describes herself as a woman of a "certain age" but it is not clear who tells this story, and nobody could have known all of it - so obviously she improvises parts (as she hints). Of their daughters, only Abigail's consciousness is presented. It may be from Abigail's looking back from her own middle age and extrapolating from the facts she knows to guess at the rest of the story. Or is it a later Blanche looking back on her life? Did Salome REALLY react to Palliser's homecoming this way; or is this only the way Blanche imagines it? Blanche or Abigail? I vote Abigail. Or Salome, if we assume Palliser DID come home and he told her a lot more than would seem likely?
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