Just an FYI I am not the original author to Lace this is an original novel whose Arthur goes by the name Shirley Conran. Four elegant, successful, sophisticated, women in their 40s have been called to Pierre hotel in New York to meet Lily, the world famous movie actress. already a legend despite her youth, Lily is beautiful, passionate, notoriously temperamental... each of the four has reason to hate Lily. and each of them is astonished to see the other; for they are old friends who met in school, old friends who share a guilty secret-old friends whose lives are changed when they met Lily who suddenly confronts them and asks " which one of you bitches is my mother" the answer to this question- a question that has obsessed and almost destroyed Lily-is the reason for this Tangled mess they makes a beautiful picture and story-it's almost as if it was made into lace.