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Barbara Vine
ISBN: 9780141042602
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
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Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway.
Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway. Despite being treated as an outsider, Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John. But she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated, for sinister reasons of their own!
| ISBN | 0141042605 | | Pages | 464 | | ISBN13 | 9780141042602
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 307 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9780141025230 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 07 May 2009 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Spine width (mm) | 28 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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'The reader is kept in suspense throughout... vintage wine from the Rendell vine' Independent 'The Cosway family is a mesmerizing creation... I rushed through the last pages' - Penelope Lively, Sunday Times 'Stealthy, credible, ingenious and addictive' Literary Review  Be the first to write a customer review
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