The Little House: A Novel - Hardcover

Gregory, Philippa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060176709 ISBN 13: 9780060176709

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1996

Synopsis

Giving up her job as a reporter for a mediocre radio station, Ruth Cleary becomes pregnant and moves to Bath, only to become lonely and depressed and find that her mother-in-law is beginning to control and manipulate her life. 15,000 first printing.

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Review:

‘Fiendishly plotted... this is Gregory at her most convincing. Sunday lunch with the in-laws will never be the same again’
Cosmopolitan

‘Insidiously gripping’
Independent

‘An excellent book... races along, raising all kinds of intriguing questions’
Radio 4 Kaleidoscope

‘Brilliant psychological chiller... utterly, nail-nibblingly plausible. You will relish its explosive climax and be gripped through to its final superb double-twist finish’
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

From the Back Cover:

It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends.

It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found out that, somehow, she could never quite measure up.

Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their two worlds. In this complex psychological thriller, the disturbing depths of what women want and what women fear become all too apparent as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity. Laying bare the truth behind the comfortable conventions of rural England, this spine-tingling novel pulses with suspense until the whiplash of the denouement.

‘This is Gregory at her most chillingly convincing.
Sunday lunch with the in-laws will never be the same’
COSMOPOLITAN

‘Insidiously gripping’
INDEPENDENT

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0060176709
• ISBN 13: 9780060176709
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 290