A Field Guide to Deception - by Jill Malone (Paperback)

About the Book

She had wanted, and she had taken what she wanted. Just like always.

Book Synopsis

Lambda Literary Award Winner and Ferro-Grumley Literary Award finalist.

"Malone is back with another story that takes us deeper into the shadowy depths of the mind and heart with every twist of its plot . . . keeping the reader rapt all the way to the unforeseeable conclusion." --Jane and Jane Magazine

Everybody longs for a happy ending.

The day the kid fell into the river--that was the moment for Claire and Liv. The first inkling of a possibility of something to pull them together. Following the death of her aunt, Claire struggled. For years, their lives had been bound together, with Claire happily writing the brilliant field guides whose covers carried her aunt's name. Now she was alone. With no way to move forward. Until she looked at Liv with new eyes. Liv, the carpenter, the whirlwind, the beautiful danger. Liv, suddenly here. But sometimes the possibility of love is too much to bear. As opportunities slowly unfurl like the petals of a flower, Claire and Liv negotiate love's challenges as well as its rewards. And on one terrible winter night, they confront the true cost of loving.

Everybody longs for a happy ending. Don't they?

Review Quotes

Red Audrey: "Luminescent writing.... Finely tuned, daring, and perceptive, Malone's auspicious debut leaves us wanting more." --Whitney Scott, Booklist "A lyrical, passionate novel about desire, about danger, and about the need for self-forgiveness. A wonderfully impressive writing debut." --Sara Waters "First-rate writing and characterization..." -Cecelia Martin, Diva "Malone's nonlinear novel jitterbugs through time and place - the splintered chronology is a rewarding challenge -. A dazzling and dramatic debut." --Richard Labonte, Bookmarks Q "A fierce, tender meditation on grief." --Lucy Jane Bledsoe

About the Author

Jill Malone went to a German kindergarten, grade school in the rural South, middle school in the affluent East, high school and college in Hawaii, and graduate school in the state of Washington. Her first novel, Red Audrey and the Roping won the Bywater Prize for Fiction. Her second novel reflects her interest in mycology. She has a three-year-old son.