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All Nell's life, Olive has lived next door but one. And all her life, Nell has hated her. Even at school she had sparkled indecently, unladylike, turning heads. But that was before she gave in to gravity. Oh, she might have been a beauty once, Olive Owens, but now she is a fright - a fat old spinster, childless, senile, nursed by the lackey she calls a lodger. Nell has a son, her pleasure and her shame, though now she lives alone. She watched her husband die in the dressing-table mirror, and she talks to him still, at times has to slip him over to shut him up. Nell is sharp, in all the places Olive is round. When Wolfe moves into the house in between them, their quiet street is transformed. A lonely, spirited, eight-year-old boy, he knocks on their doors at Halloween and invites them to his bonfire party. As the ashes smoulder and the fireworks flare, he finds himself in the middle of an ancient conflict, grudges bared, and burning with a fury he could never have imagined.
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'A perfect, black little tale' -- The Observer
'Glaister has the uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on things we most fear, of exposing the darkness within' -- Independent on Sunday
'Glaister's writing is extraordinary: her tales of scarcely imaginable horror jumbled up with everyday comforts give rise to shivery laughter' -- Sunday Times
'Glaister, along with Ruth Rendell, has almost cornered the market in horror stories set in the suburbs ... but Glaister's work is more unsettling' -- The Times
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'Glaister has the uncomfortable knack of putting her finger on things we most fear, of exposing the darkness within' -- Independent on Sunday
'Glaister's writing is extraordinary: her tales of scarcely imaginable horror jumbled up with everyday comforts give rise to shivery laughter' -- Sunday Times
'Glaister, along with Ruth Rendell, has almost cornered the market in horror stories set in the suburbs ... but Glaister's work is more unsettling' -- The Times
Lesley Glaister is the author of HONOUR THY FATHER, which won the Somerset Maugham and a Betty Trask award, DIGGING TO AUSTRALIA, LIMESTONE AND CLAY, PARTIAL ECLIPSE, THE PRIVATE PARTS OF WOMEN, EASY PEASY, SHEER BLUE BLISS and NOW YOU SEE ME, all available in paperback from Bloomsbury. She lives in Sheffield.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0747559856
- ISBN 13 9780747559856
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