From Publishers Weekly
At age 11, Conway left the arduous life on her family's sheep farm in the Australian outback for school in war-time Sydney. "A lively curiosity and penetrating intellect illuminate this unusually objective account of the author's progress from a solitary childhood--the most appealing part of the narrative--to public achievement as president of Smith College and now professor at MIT," noted PW. (Aug.) FICTION REPRINTSFICTION REPRINTS . GARDEN OF LIES Eileen Goudge. NAL/Signet, $5.95 * ISBN 0-451-16291-9 A woman switches her daughter with the child of a woman who dies in a fire. Although Goudge uses some stale plot devices, according to PW , this is a "highly readable story of secret loves and tangled lives." Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
The fiction tradition that a woman will do anything for a man is alive and well in this novel by "Sweet Valley High" teen series writer Goudge. Sylvia seizes the opportunity offered by a hospital fire to switch infants, taking a newborn whose appearance resembles her husband's. Her true child, fathered by Sylvia's lover, is left to make her own way in the world. Rachel, raised in luxury as Sylvia's daughter, becomes a doctor. When her career is jeopardized, she is defended by Sylvia's real daughter, who has overcome poverty to become a lawyer. The two women of course compete for the same man, as Sylvia herself tries to decide whether to marry Nikos, her former lover. With the requisite cast of heroes and villains and a backdrop including the Vietnam War, this should be a sure-fire hit for romance lovers. BOMC featured selection; ABC-TV miniseries.- Elsa Pendleton, Computer Sciences Corp., Ridgecrest, Cal.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

On a hot July night in 1943, Sylvie gives birth to a dark-haired child she knows is the child of her lover. Realizing that her husband will not accept the child as his own, she finds deliverance from her impossible dilemma: amidst a raging fire in the hospital, Sylvie claims the fair-haired baby girl of a dead woman as her own, leaving her real daughter to be raised by strangers.

Rachel and Rose grow up worlds apart. Rachel is raised in the lap of Manhattan luxury, an ice princess determined to be a great doctor; Rose, in the slums of New York City, yields to passion too young yet escapes heartbreak to become a prominent lawyer. Neither of them knows the terrible secret which draws them ever closer as they both fall in love with the same man-bringing them face to face with the truth about each other and themselves.

FROM THE CRITICS

Library Journal