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Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside.
The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. More puzzling still was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. 'There's madness in the family' offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn't right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John.
Barbara Vine's new book, her twelfth, is compelling in its depiction of the sex, lies and secrets within an apparently respectable family, at a time when the sixties revolution hadn't quite reached rural England.
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'... suspense throughout... vintage wine from the Rendell vine.' (The Independent)
'Stealthy, credible, ingenious and addictive.' (Literary Review)
'The Cosway family is a mesmerizing creation ...' (Sunday Times)
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'Stealthy, credible, ingenious and addictive.' (Literary Review)
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0670915734
- ISBN 13 9780670915736
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