The Girl Next Door
by:
Ruth Rendell (author)
In this psychologically explosive story from “one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation” (People), the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends.In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in...
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In this psychologically explosive story from “one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation” (People), the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends.In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. Throughout the summer of 1944—until one fat
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B00IWTWH1G
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
This is more Barbara Vine than Rendell, so you know what you are getting. It chronicles the discovery of two hands and the challenges that brings to a group of people - children in the second World War but 60 plus in the setting of the book. Like most of Rendell's books when she writers as Vine, the...
In the summer of 1944 there is not much for a group of young people to do in the English countryside until one day they discover a tunnel that becomes their secret meeting place. It’s a place to wile away some time; play games on make shift tables by the light of candle, tell stories, have makeshif...
The bones from a crime committed towards the end of the second World War which were burried in a secret tunnel system are found when a house is built some 70 years later. The story then tells how a group of friends who used to play in these tunnels now start questioning their past and their friendsh...
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