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Sometimes Max I imagine that I see you in her Not in the sense of any physical inheritance but a fleeting essence Something wary and remote Haunted you might say Though her ghosts are not yoursSet between India and England Faithless is the story of Cressida a writer and translator and her consuming love for Max an enigmatic older writer and married man
Cressidas passion for Max engulfs her from the first giddy rush of sensation when she is eighteen and meets him in the mountains of southern India It is a desire so potent it delivers great stunning blows to her heart And yet she can share it with almost no one
Then Cressida meets Leo and she is forced to choose between a life of passion or a desire for some peace of mind between her romantic idealism and the possibility of a steadier attainable happiness
As the years unfold with both these men a fragile young child Flora also finds her way into Cressidas life and heart and it is Flora who forces Cressida to confront her own capacity for love and deception and to accept the compromises life forces on us the lies we tell in service of those things we cannot live without
Faithless is a passionate love story and a profound reflection on the nuances of attachment the nature of desire the different connections and relationships that sustain us and the ways that we deceive ourselves and others in the hope that finally we can reach stumblingly towards one another