Father of Lies

Father of Lies by Janet Inglis. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780552142083.

It was her mothers fault; if she had grown up with them, as by rights she should have done, they would be like cousins or brothers, no more, no less. As it was, they had come into her life as strangers, adult males, potential lovers. When Georgie Payne knocks on the door of her grandfathers house, she has crossed the Atlantic alone to solve a mystery. Her mother Olivia has had no contact with her parents, Georgies grandparents, for nearly twenty years. Georgie has never met them and knows nothing about them. How did this situation come about? Georgie has come to England to find out. To her surprise and delight, she quickly discovers two gorgeous half-uncles, both her own age. There is Matthew, graceful and ambiguous, her grandfathers son by his second marriage. And there is big, blond, shaggyLuke, her grandmothers son from her marriage to Nick, the enigmatic photographer who seems to know more than he will tell about the events of the past. But the more Georgie discovers, the more entangled she herself becomes in the consequences of what happened long ago, as her sudden reappearance breaks the silence of decades.