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The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
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Moving backwards and forwards between the 1950s and the 1990s, and between Suffolk, London and the north Devon coast, a novel about a noted writer who, it is discovered when he dies, created an entirely new identity for himself when he was in his twenties. From the author of ASTA'S BOOK and THE... show more
Moving backwards and forwards between the 1950s and the 1990s, and between Suffolk, London and the north Devon coast, a novel about a noted writer who, it is discovered when he dies, created an entirely new identity for himself when he was in his twenties. From the author of ASTA'S BOOK and THE BRIMSTONE WEDDING.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780670879373 (0670879371)
Publisher: Viking
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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Crime-on-thrill
Crime-on-thrill rated it
3.5 A thriller but with a difference!!
THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER’S BOY by Barbara Vine is a standalone novel from the renowned British crime novelist, who is best known for her psychological thrillers. Gerald Candless, a bestselling and a onetime Booker prize shortlisted author dies suddenly, the day after entertaining guests at his house on t...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it
3.5
This book, look most of Rendell’s work when she writes as Vine, is a family mystery. It is about the death of a father and the discovery of his daughters of whom this father actually was, who they actually are. In many ways, it is a horrifying novel because it is about the continuation of destruct...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
4.0 The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
bookshelves: summer-2010, families, published-1998, books-about-books-and-book-shops, mystery-thriller, glbt, fraudio, britain-england Recommended for: those who like books-about-books mysteries Read from August 02 to 05, 2010 Read by Frances BarberSource CDDuration approx 12:57 hours blurb - W...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
4.0
Read by Frances BarberSource CDDuration approx 12:57 hours blurb - Writing as Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine has earned the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement. In The Chimney Sweeper's Boy, Vine proves herself the equal of her alter ego and a master of the psychological thriller--as well as the...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
I've always enjoyed the Vine books. They're so brooding, full of spaces where people don't connect with one another. Hell to live in, but perversely fun to read (at least my life isn't that awful).
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