Delusion: Two Novellas

To JUSTINE DURANDT delusion is a means of escape from the real world. Her life as a world-famous film actress allows her to live in a cocoon, to shut out the truth and write the script for her own life's melodrama. Her upbringing on a lonely farm in South Africa leaves deep scars from the abuse and a legacy which remains her secret, ending her marriage to Matt Newbury, a charismatic chiropractor to the rich and famous. She commissions a ghost writer Raoul Jardine, to write her memoirs wanting to present to the world the woman she is not... GRIGOR SIDOROV is a young fine artist recognised for his exceptional talent. After perestroika he works for the State in the restoration of Russia's art and architectural treasures. The Sidorovs are a close family of White Russians, persecuted during the Soviet era. Grigor deludes himself that he alone carries the burden of the loss of the family's dignity, the blurring of their lineage back to the time of Tzar Peter the Great and the dispossession of their wealth. In the Peterhof Palace in St Petersburg, Grigor makes perfect copies of the 18th Century paintings by a famous Italian artist, Pietro Rotari, the first step in his actual plan for retribution...

• | Author: Derek Thomas
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Aug 31, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1539132897
• | ISBN-13: 9781539132899