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Nikki Black, intent on punishing the mother who abandoned her at birth, goes to the island with only one aim in mind: revenge. But her plans are confounded by the discovery that she has a brother. Not just any brother but a brother strangely possessed by their mother; a brother with a terrifying violent streak….
Summary
The island is a place where things are not quite as they appear; a magical place where the murder of a reclusive woman is not a cut and dried case.
‘I thought I had come to the island to wrest control of my life back from the woman who had sabotaged it. But I was wrong. My mother was still writing my plot.’Nikki Black, intent on punishing the mother who abandoned her at birth, goes to the island with only one aim in mind: revenge. But her plans are confounded by …Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349112299 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349112290 |
| Author: | Jane Rogers |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2000 |
| Weight: | 41g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 126mm |
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The mindscape of an intelligent young woman who has never known any kind of love is brilliantly portrayed…This is a story where there is a kind of cathartic redemption - THE TIMES
A novel of redemption - Nicci Gerrard, OBSERVERHeart breakingly lyrical - GUARDIANOriginal and compelling … ‘Tempest - territory’About The Author
Jane Rogers
Jane Rogers has written six novels including MR WROE’S VIRGINS (dramatised as an award-winning television serial) and PROMISED LANDS, which won the Writers’ Guild Best Novel Award 1996. She also writes for TV and radio, and teaches at Sheffield Hallam University.
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