Good used. In need of money and bored with her country life, a genteel middle-aged writer named Isobel Latimer invents a new persona--the flamboyant blonde Zelda Vere--and begins to write trashy novels. When the ruse succeeds, Isobel finds herself not only wealthy beyond her wildest dreams but in the midst of an identity crisis, particularly when she starts having an affair with her hunky agent, Troy. Meanwhile, her dull husband, Philip, is also finding a new direction in his life, whats happening at home to her once-predictable marriage? What began with the best of intentions snowballs into a disorienting blur of passion, gender-bending, loss of innocence, betrayal and despair. Isobel Latimer might feel shes on the brink of losing everything, but what would Zelda do? 422pp.