Author(s): Charlotte Randall

Fiction

A frustrated author is offered the chance for her beautiful daughter to become unimaginably rich and famous as a tennis player. What will she say? What if she has even greater ambitions of her own? Or if the desired outcome involves a pact with what, the Devil himself?

Nothing in Charlotte Randall?s wicked new novel is exactly as it seems. Who, for instance, is telling the story? Which of the players has the most to lose? Is the tennis coach more than human ? or considerably less than divine?

From the author of the prizewinning novel The Curative, Within the Kiss is a hilarious and often erotic exploration of pride, and of the art of telling lies.

(Preceeding text courtesy www.penguin.co.nz)

++ Joint runner-up for the Deutz Medal for fiction at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards ++

Paperback (B-Format)