Soulmates

Miranda Glover read English at Oxford before embarking on a publishing career, specializing in art, design and the web. She has edited several well-received books set in the art field as well as writing art reference books. Her debut novel, MASTERPIECE, was shortlisted for the Pendleton May First Novel Award 2005. 
 
Miranda is married to a portrait photographer and they have two young children.

Emi and Polly Leto are identical twins with a shared life until Emi vanishes and Polly is left searching. Now one becomes two, and twindom becomes duplicity as myth and memory merge, forcing Emi and Polly to confront what they thought they knew about themselves, one another and the parents who made them. Behind the twins there is the creator of their souls, a woman called Sarah, a mother without whom there would be no story to be told. 
 
From the edgy heart of London to a remote idyll on the Stockholm archipelago, this is a journey into the power of love, the damage wreaked by emotional depression and the agony of sexual deceit. It is a story of the genetic impact of nature wrestling with the heady demands of nurture, of patterns of behaviour and the cruel turns of fate.

Masterpiece

A stunning, high-concept debut novel set in the contemporary art world that is a perfect choice for reading groups.

'Gorgeous...Glover is an art-world insider and she looks behind the glitter with great assurance'

'This novel is the ultimate comment on our obsession with fame, celebrity and surface beauty... A superbly thought-provoking read'

'Sumptuous and sensuous ... a thought-provoking and well-informed take on art history and the art market'

Miranda Glover read English at Oxford before embarking on a publishing career, specializing in art, design and the web. She has edited several well-received books set in the art field as well as writing art reference books. 
 
Miranda is married to a portrait photographer and they have two young children.

Art, fashion, fame and sex - artist Esther Glass has it all. That is, until a ghost from her past threatens to destroy her perfect life. Trying to cover her tracks, Esther goes for ultimate sensation, selling herself as a living work of art. She takes the international art scene by storm, performing as the female sitters inside seven great paintings. But underneath the surface the cracks start to show as Esther is forced to reconcile a very private history with a very public life. 
 
Fast-paced, smart and scintillating, Masterpiece gives the reader a rare glimpse into a closed world.

Miranda Glover

It's early morning and Meanwhile Street thinks it's waking to a regular Wednesday in May. Soon a disconcerting sound alerts Maggie and Gordon that something's not right. Throughout the day neighbours bear witness to a series of apparently unrelated incidents that, by midnight, leave a solitary fifteen-year-old running for his life and a Polish girl preparing to flee London for good. 
 
It is Thursday before anyone knows that events have culminated in a single, heart-wrenching tragedy. In the aftermath, kids and adults from all backgrounds are forced across their thresholds to confront one another and the community they share. Love and trust, courage and cowardice, hope and despair, are all challenged, with some extraordinary and surprising consequences.

Miranda Glover

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