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Barbara Vine
ISBN: 9780141040189
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
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Like most families, they had their secrets ...And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets.
Like most families, they had their secrets ...And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors - even murder.
| ISBN | 0141040181 | | Pages | 304 | | ISBN13 | 9780141040189
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 205 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9780140086362 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 07 May 2009 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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'Compulsively readable... a carefully devised plot unfolded with the most cunning art. Wilkie Collins and Dickens would have admired it' Sunday Times 'Brilliantly plotted. Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean streets of the mind and can build up an almost tangible atmosphere of menace and unease' Daily Telegraph 'It is no secret that Barbara Vine is the distinguished crime writer Ruth Rendell and in A Dark-Adapted Eye we have Ms Rendell at the height of her powers. This is a rich, compelx and beautifully crafted novel, which combines excitement with psychological subtlety. I salute a deeply satisfying achievement' - P.D. James  Be the first to write a customer review
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