Things We Can't Untie
What do you do when your world collapses − when the people you love fail you?
Catherine Jennings arrives in a remote New Zealand village hoping to start a new life.
But she drags the past with her, plunging Chris, and his wife Anna, into a nightmare of old secrets and sudden death.
Both women must unravel their turbulent past before they can turn and face the future.
Things We Can’t Untie is a haunting, mysterious book that is difficult to put down.
The Novel has been well reviewed by readers on Amazon.com, gaining a four and a half star rating from thirty-three reviews.
Reviews for the Kindle Edition
Things We Can't Untie - A great read
Wonderful to read a story based in New Zealand, great characters, great story, a page turner, I would highly recommend.
Wendy Bremner
Great Book
This was a very good book. Had me right from the first line. It's a touching book about people and life and relationships. You can almost feel the characters as you're reading.
Tabiatha
A great New Zealand voice
I love history and social history in particular. I know NZ history fairly well and write about it myself. This is a modern social history novel, with deep secrets, personal trauma and the difficulties. But it is also a story of love, of friendship or rural, small town New Zealand with all its quirks and interesting characters. It's not a cliched story in any way and things go wrong before the come right and they come right in the most unlikely way. Worth reading.
Vicky Adin
Wonderful and Surprising
I am sure I bought this book for my Kindle simply because of the New Zealand setting, but once I started reading I could not set the story aside. I had no idea where it was going and was surprised at many turns. It is a moving story, with sadness, laughter, romance, sweetness, frustration, an occassional sense of fear about how things will turn out, and hope. The read was a wonderful adventure. I highly recommend it.
Drowning in Light Seas
It is New Year's Eve and Leah's Life is falling apart. Her husband, Max, is having multiple affairs and expects her to look the other way.
When she confronts him, he leaves her.
Alone and grief stricken, she stumbles into an online fantasy world where people seem fascinating and sympathetic. Her increasing addiction to this world sends her life spiralling out of control.
Then the threats begin ...
Why is her apartment trashed?
Who is her cyber stalker?
And is the online world any safer than the reality she is running from?
Drowning in Light Seas is a fast-paced, tense novel, which explores the many dimensions of online relationships - openness, trust, friendship, sexuality, power - and how they can affect your life.
Reviews for the Kindle Edition
A touching story that moves you to another world
This is a touching story that pulls the heart strings but without being gratuitously sentimental. The characters compel you into another world and with each page that world becomes richer and ever more intriguing. A great book and I can't wait to read Lesley's next publication.
Belinda Keeble
Compulsive reading
Drowning in Light Seas is compulsive reading. The story line is one that draws the reader in, with credible characters and realistic scenarios - it could be real life!! I found myself eager to discover the outcome, and was thoroughly entertained along the way. An excellent read.
Lindsey Thomas
An Excellent Read
Curnow's light touch links the everyday struggles of a woman struggling to understand the betrayals of her partner and the world into which he has plunged her. The story links the wildness of an isolated batch on the New Zealand Coast with the mystery and excitement of England. A good read and I really enjoyed the story.