Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47901 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

Synopsis
The thrilling and powerful psychological trilogy, reissued to coincide with a major 3 part TV adaptation, Fallen Angel, starring Charles Dance and Emilia Fox, from the bestelling author of 'The American Boy'. 'Nobody's perfect,' says a little girl in a walled garden. Certainly not the child stolen from a shabby London street. Or the sexually frustrated suburban vicar. Or least of all, perhaps, the woman who runs out of good times and comes to perch like a cuckoo in the bosom of a perfect family. Fallen Angel uncovers the secret history of a murderer, tracing the full damage and horror of an unforgiving killer over forty years. A chilling account of one family's self-destruction, the story slowly strips away the past, like an archaeological dig into the very nature of evil.

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully Written!!!
I once had the privledge of meeting Andrew Taylor at the Harrogate Festival. A very talented writer but so unassuming.
At the time, I had not read all of the Roth Trilogy but had just finished 'The American Boy', which I was happy to recommend to other readers.
I think 'The Roth Tilogy' is a wonderful achievement.
Andrew Taylor is totally underrated. There are many highly regarded, world famous but mediocre writers who will never achieve anything like this.
I notice that another reviewer has asked for Rosemary's point of view. I am certain that Andrew Taylor could do this - if he wanted to - because he can capture the female voice so eloquently.

My favourite book is 'The Office of the Dead'. Wendy was not originally intended to be the narrator - that was to be her husband's role, as David Byfield's friend. It was not to be and Andrew Taylor found his wonderful 'female' voice.

My overwhelming feeling was one of tremendous sadness because none of it needed to happen. The past did, indeed, have a hold on the present (and the future).
I can't wait for 'Bleeding Heart Square'.

Just an aside, it is a great pity that the T.V. version was not set in the 1950s, because the setting, which was integral to the sinister atmosphere of the book, was lost.
Emillia Fox was a trully chilling Rosemary but Wendy was too old.
Fine details!

Triffic
WOW, I loved this book.

I have yet to watch the DVD - what I want to know is where is the book from Rosemarys point of view.. I think that would a great read..

Loved it.. One of the best

Not one like it!
This book is completely and utterly fantastic! The way it is original with 'whydunnit' instead of the normal 'whodunnit'. The 3 parts to the book are all good, especially the judgment of strangers, this one reveals the most to me and kept me reading on more than the other two parts. I was reading it while it was on ITV 1, i thought it would have spoiled the book but it really didn't.