Allen & Unwin The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay book Fiction English Paperback 304 pages

What if the life you have is built on a delusion? What if your closest friend turns out to be an enemy?

All her life Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with two Italian brothers, Paolo whom she married, and Luca who remained her best friend. Now, Nina faces a future alone-separated from Paolo and estranged from Luca, she escapes to the tiny Greek island where she honeymooned 25 years earlier.After a collision with a bus, while convalescing in the hospital, she finds herself telling her story to an eagerly attentive doctor, and before long she's questioning everything she thought she once knew.Like Gillies's previous novel, The White Lie, this is a work of provocative intelligence, which carries the reader through multiple layers of deception and revelation, and challenges perceptions about love, honesty and betrayal.

Andrea Gillies won both The Wellcome Prize 2009 and The Orwell Prize 2010 for her first book, Keeper, which was prompted by living with someone with Alzheimer's. The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay is her second novel. The White Lie, about a landed Scottish family determined to keep a dark secret, was published to critical acclaim in 2012.Find out more about the books at www.andreagillies.com