{"product_id":"9781908026651","title":"Angel of Deceit","description":"Why does a respectable former Professor of English, happily married to a faithful wife for 35 years, suddenly at the age of 71 have an affair with a 54-year-old local Scots woman? She is an alcoholic and had come to the nearby Church of Scotland slightly tipsy, lavishly made up and wearing a revealing outfit showing a lot of cleavage. \u003cp\u003eShe attends the weekly prayer meetings and before long the former professor and the recovering alcoholic find themselves in a secret relationship, but their happiness involves guilt and deceit. As she says, \"I was addicted to the bottle-but now you are my new addiction, and I will move heaven and earth to keep you! I will even lie to keep you and if necessary I will lie for your sake. You see, I have become your Angel of Deceit!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel is a slice of life that affords an insight into the resourceful and rationalising minds of the habitual 'sinner' and the recovering alcoholic-minds to which hiding the truth, re-inventing the truth or justifying lies comes all too easily. 'Thinking on one's feet' and a ready recourse to deceit are ingrained survival strategies, if not automatic instincts of the alcoholic mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diadem Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049393733872,"sku":"9781908026651","price":12.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908026651_p0.jpg?v=1763620100","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908026651","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}