Deception
By Lesley Pearse
Publisher: Century – Penguin Random House RRP $37
Ko wai au? Who am I? It’s a question we all ask ourselves at some point, and in searching for answers to this most human of questions, many of us find ourselves stumbling into another: nō, the questions start when a dark-haired stranger named Angus Tweedy approaches her at her mother’s funeral and tells her he is her father. In spite of everything she was raised believing to be true – that she is the daughter of Ralph and Sally Kent – Alice soon learns that Sally Kent was once Helen Tweedy and that she, Alice, is the result of a bigamous marriage between her and Angus. Though she initially fights it, she searches her feelings and knows it to be true.