Adam Verne-Smith collects around him a group of young people at Wyvis Hall, a big old country house in Suffolk. They hardly asks themselves or each other what they are doing, why they are there or how they are to live. They scavenge, steal, pawn.
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"An absolute winner ... a gripping read from start to end" (The Daily Mail)
"Brilliant. Vine has the kind of near-Victorian narrative drive ... that compels a reader to go on turning the pages." (The Sunday Times)
A classic thriller from the queen of crime Barbara Vine.
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