Synopsis
'They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon' When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of 19, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past. In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon – a gargantuan electrified grasshopper – Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops with a gang of neighbourhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the listener are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there – and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.
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About the Author
Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and Viking published all of her books under that name.
Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers.
Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
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