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The Brimstone Wedding
By Barbara Vine
10 - Used - good
Description
'Intriguing absorbing and compelling' Spectator
Jenny's marriage is loveless and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home where she is especially fond of Stella a gracious dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lover's husband . . .
Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love. If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James Ian Rankin and Scott Turow you will adore this book.
'The Rendell/ Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together' Ian Rankin'A superb and original writer' Amanda Craig Express
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
1997-01-30
Publication Date:
2006-07-27
Publisher:
Penguin
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0140252800
ISBN13:
9780140252804
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
303 g
Height:
111 cm
Width:
181 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
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