A Dark-Adapted Eye
$33.23
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2016
Summary
A 30-year anniversary edition of the award-winning first novel by Barbara Vine, creator of the modern psychological thriller. Newly packaged, and with a foreword by Val McDermid.
‘A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel’ P.D. James
Vera Hillyard. My aunt, and murderess.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241976883 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024197688X |
| Author: | Barbara Vine |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 30th |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2016 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
Compulsively readable … a carefully devised plot unfolded with the most cunning art. Wilkie Collins and Dickens would have admired it
Compulsively readable … a carefully devised plot unfolded with the most cunning art. Wilkie Collins and Dickens would have admired it * Sunday Times *
Brilliantly plotted. Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean streets of the mind and can build up an almost tangible atmosphere of menace and unease * Daily Telegraph *
Will linger in your memory long after you have closed the book. A first-rate novel * Washington Post *
[Vine has a] dizzying ability to lock on to minds in chaos and snare us in their whorls of dread and doubt * Telegraph *
About The Author
Barbara Vine
Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers. Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for 1976’s best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
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