Chloe's Song

by Leslie Thomas

This is the new tale of love and life, rich with humour and pathos, from our best loved storyteller. From the prison cell where Chloe Smith, 43, is awaiting trial for the merciful murder of the only man who ever loved her with honesty, she recalls the men in her life who lied to her. She remembers her adored father, who drank too much; the loss of her virginity at Stonehenge to a schoolboy, her marriage to petty crook Zane Tomkins, the Isle of Wight ferryman who said he was a lonely deep sea sailor, the young priest who said he loved her but left to establish a church for men, or the lighthouse keeper who shouted in his sleep - all these men, and many others, have let Chloe down. "Chloe's Song" is the story of one woman's quest to get what every woman wants - a man who tells the truth.

Genres: Fiction

336 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Born in Newport, Monmouthshire, 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week, published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over four million copies.

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

9/10

[Bleu]

It's really difficult to know if I simply lost interest at the time or if the bit with the cat was an event I just couldn't move beyond.