Art & Lies Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003) We have been told that

We have been told that the key to longevity involves obsessing over what we eat

and thirty-eight thousand books helped a small town find its heart

and Sauron

Glinda is under house arrest

Her friends insist an around-the-world sex-fueled adventure will solve all her problems - could they be right

Art & Lies Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003) We have been told thatHandel is a failed priest but abiding Catholic with elitist tendencies whose work as a doctor forces him to consider social questions that he would probably rather avoid. Picasso, as she calls herself, is a young artist who has been sexually abused by her brother but whose family thinks she is at fault for her dark moods. Sappho is, indeed, Sappho, the lesbian poet of ancient Greece, who here proclaims herself a sensualist and then proceeds to dissect