The St. Zita Society: A Novel
by:
Ruth Rendell (author)
Life on Hexam Place appears orderly on the outside: drivers take their employers to and from work, dogs are walked, flowers are planted in gardens. But beneath this tranquil veneer, this quintessentially London world of servants and their masters is set to combust. Henry, the handsome valet to...
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Life on Hexam Place appears orderly on the outside: drivers take their employers to and from work, dogs are walked, flowers are planted in gardens. But beneath this tranquil veneer, this quintessentially London world of servants and their masters is set to combust. Henry, the handsome valet to Lord Studley, is sleeping with both the Lord’s wife and his university-age daughter. Montserrat, the Still family’s lazy au pair, assists Mrs. Still in keeping secret her illicit affair with a television actor—in exchange for pocket cash. June, the haughty housekeeper to a princess of dubious origin, tries to enlist her fellow house-helpers into a “society” to address complaints about their employers. Meanwhile, Dex, the disturbed gardener to several families on the block, thinks a voice on his cell phone is giving him godlike instructions—commands that could imperil the lives of all those in Hexam Place.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781451666694 (1451666691)
ASIN: 1451666691
Publish date: August 6th 2013
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
America isn’t quite the classless society that we like to think it is, but apparently, we are far closer than even modern day England. Rendell’s Zita’s Society is about a few houses in London and the people who inhabit them. The two classes that inhabit them – the servants (or not quite servants) an...
Way too predictable in my opinion. I also didn't see the point of the title-giving Saint Zita Society. Reading the blurb, I'd thought it would play a much bigger role.
Ruth Rendell is the master of all psychological suspense plots. In this book she does not disappoint. It tells the tale of several families who live on one block in London. The live across from each other or next door. Their lives are all interwoven, though some don't know/realize it or they choose ...