The Long Shadow - Softcover

Fremlin, Celia

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754 ratings by Goodreads

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ISBN 10: 0571312837 ISBN 13: 9780571312832

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2014

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'Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin wrote psychological thrillers that changed the landscape of crime fiction for ever: her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating - and quite horribly chilling.' Andrew Taylor

The Long Shadow (1975), Celia Fremlin's ninth novel, tells a Christmas story with a difference. Imogen Barnicott's husband - a celebrated, cruel and egocentric professor of Classics - has recently died in a car accident. Now, to the pain of widowhood is added the attentions of an anonymous phone-caller who accuses Imogen of murder and alleges that he can prove it. But can Imogen be certain her husband is truly dead and gone?

'Genuine chiller... Splendid suspense in a brilliantly captured domestic setting.' Sunday Telegraph

'The story unfolds with brilliant ingenuity, always on the verge of explanation, ever plausibly plunging deeper.' Times

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Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin wrote psychological thrillers that changed the landscape of crime fiction for ever: her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating - and quite horribly chilling. (Andrew Taylor)

Genuine chiller... Splendid suspense in a brilliantly captured domestic setting. (Sunday Telegraph)

The story unfolds with brilliant ingenuity, always on the verge of explanation, ever plausibly plunging deeper. (Times)

Book Description:

A Christmas story with a difference - by an acknowledged expert in chilling suspense

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