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'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. James
The prize-winning classic that 'changed the thriller landscape', with a new foreword from Val McDermid.
VERA HILLYARD. AUNT. MOTHER. MURDERESS.
Faith Severn's life has long been overshadowed by the mystery surrounding her aunt. A respectable woman who committed a crime so terrible she was hung for it.
Now, the time has come to piece her story together.
What secret caused two devoted sisters to turn from love to hate?
And was Vera born a killer. . .Or was she driven to it?
'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
'Will linger in your memory long after you have closed the book. A first-rate novel' Washington Post
A Dark-Adapted Eye is a modern classic. If you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James and Ian Rankin you will love this book.
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.
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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) --(Daily Telegraph)
Will linger in your memory long after you have closed the book. A first-rate novel (Washington Post) --(Washington Post)
[Vine has a] dizzying ability to lock on to minds in chaos and snare us in their whorls of dread and doubt (Telegraph) --(Telegraph)
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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) --(Daily Telegraph)
Will linger in your memory long after you have closed the book. A first-rate novel (Washington Post) --(Washington Post)
[Vine has a] dizzying ability to lock on to minds in chaos and snare us in their whorls of dread and doubt (Telegraph) --(Telegraph)
Like most families, they had their secrets ...
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A 30 year anniversary edition of the award-winning first novel by Barbara Vine - the creator of the modern psychological thriller. Newly packaged, and with a foreword by Val McDemid.'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. JamesVera Hillyard. My aunt, and murderess.Faith Severn's life has long been overshadowed by the scandal of her aunt's execution for murder. For nearly 25 years she has tried to forget the woman she once spent her holidays with, who seemed such a perfect mother and caring sister.Now the time has come to piece together the mystery.What secret caused two devoted sisters to turn from love to bitter hatred?Was Vera born a killer.or was she driven to it?And can anyone ever really know the truth?Written in 1986, and set against the morally and politically tumultous backdrop of 1940s England, Ruth Rendell's first novel writing as Barbara Vine is a psychological masterpiece, a study in the dangers of a society in thrall to ideas of female respectability.This newly packaged 30 year anniversary edition comes with a foreword by the acclaimed writer Val McDermid. Faith Severn's life has long been overshadowed by the scandal of her aunt's execution for murder. For nearly 25 years she has tried to forget the woman she once spent her holidays with, who seemed such a perfect mother and caring sister. Now the time has come to piece together the mystery. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780241976883
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