The Birthday Present, Vine Barbara

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Dark-Adapted Eye
ISBN: 024197688X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241976883
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Faith Severn`s life has long been overshadowed by the scandal of her aunt`s execution for murder. For nearly 25 years she has tried to forget the woman she once spent her holidays with, who seemed such a perfect mother and caring sister. Now the time has come to piece together the mystery.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Child`s Child HB
ISBN: 067092220X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670922208
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Child`s Child Hb
ISBN: 145169489X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781451694895
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
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Описание: From three-time Edgar Award-winning mystery writer Ruth Rendell, writing here under her Barbara Vine pseudonym, an ingenious novel-within-a-novel about brothers and sisters and the violence lurking behind our society's taboos.

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair--until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend. A devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain resembles Cary Grant, but his strident comments about Grace's doctoral thesis soon puncture the house's idyllic atmosphere.

When he and Andrew witness their friend's murder outside a London nightclub, James begins to unravel, and what happens next will change the lives of everyone in the house. Just as turmoil sets in at Dinmont House, Grace escapes into reading a manuscript--a long-lost novel from 1951 called The Child's Child--never published because of its frank depictions of an unwed mother and a homosexual relationship. The book is the story of two siblings born a few years after World War One. This brother and sister, John and Maud, mirror the present-day Andrew and Grace: a homosexual brother and a sister carrying an illegitimate child. Acts of violence and sex will reverberate through their stories.

The Child's Child is an enormously clever, brilliantly constructed novel-within-a-novel about family, betrayal, and disgrace. A master of psychological suspense, Ruth Rendell, in her newest work under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, takes us where violence and social taboos collide. She shows how society's treatment of those it once considered undesirable has changed--and how sometimes it hasn't.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Child`s Child
ISBN: 0670922218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670922215
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: When Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother`s house in Hampstead, they decide to move in together. It seems the obvious thing to do: they`ve always got on well, the house is large enough to split down the middle, and neither of them likes partying or loud music.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: A Fatal Inversion
ISBN: 0141040475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040479
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. Adam, Rufus, Shiva, Vivien and Zosie hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live; they scavenge, steal and sell the family heirlooms. In short, they exist. Ten years later, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall`s animal cemetery.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Asta`s Book
ISBN: 0141040459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040455
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: King Solomon`s Carpet
ISBN: 0141040432 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040431
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line. His strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube; and mysterious Axel, whose dark secret later casts a shadow over all of their lives.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: A Dark-Adapted Eye
ISBN: 0141040181 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040189
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Like most families, they had their secrets ...And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Chimney Sweeper`s Boy
ISBN: 0141040165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141040165
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn`t Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Minotaur
ISBN: 0141042605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141042602
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John`s strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The house of stairs
ISBN: 1405882220 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405882224
Издательство: Pearson Education
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Описание: Contemporary / British English Twenty years ago a group of people lived in a house in London. One of them was murdered, but who was it? We slowly find out the truth, as the past, the present and the future join together in a frightening story.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Barbara Vine Pack
ISBN: 0140912053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140912050
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 923.00 р.
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Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: The Blood Doctor
ISBN: 1400032520 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400032525
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1471.00 р.
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Описание: Sometimes it's best to leave the past alone. For when biographer Martin Nanther looks into the life of his famous great-grandfather Henry, Queen Victoria's favorite physician, he discovers some rather unsettling coincidences, like the fact that the doctor married the sister of his recently murdered fiancee. The more Martin researches his distant relative, the more fascinated--and horrified--he becomes. Why did people have a habit of dying around his great grandfather? And what did his late daughter mean when she wrote that he's done "monstrous, quite appalling things"?

Barbara Vine (a.k.a. Ruth Rendell) deftly weaves this story of an eminent Victorian with a modern yarn about the embattled biographer, who is watching the House of Lords prepare to annul membership for hereditary peers and thus strip him of his position. Themes of fate and family snake throughout this teasing psychological suspense, a typically chilling tale from a master of the genre.

Автор: Vine Barbara
Название: Grasshopper
ISBN: 0375726500 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375726507
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon.
When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never entirely escape your past.

In the aftermath of the incident on the pylon--one of the great electrified structures that dot the English countryside like so many gargantuan grasshoppers--Clodagh goes off to university, moves into a basement flat arranged by her unsympathetic family, and finds freedom trekking across London's rooftops with a gang of neighborhood misfits. As she begins a thrilling relationship with a fellow climber, however, both Clodagh and the reader are haunted by the memory of the pylon and of the terrible thing that happened there--and by the eerie sense that another tragedy is just a footfall away.