Product Description

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?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #135597 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Review
'So ingeniously constructed, its truths and falsehoods are so deftly and convincingly interwoven, that its solution... is as jolting as a flash of lightning' Sunday Times 'About the power of taboos, transgressions, guitls, deceptions, horrors, atonements, upsets and upheavals... gripping' Independent 'Vine's control of plot and pure horripilation... simultaneously thrills and disquiets. She goes for the imagination as a lesser writer would go for the jugular' Literary Review

About the Author
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fourteen novels using this pseudonym, including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon’s Carpet which both won the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award. All her books are available in Penguin. Ruth Rendell sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer. She lives in Maida Vale, London.