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Pub. Date
[1993]
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English
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"Dazzling...writing at her formidable best, Barbara Vine taps the poetry as well as the pain of her characters' clamorous declarations of their need for love." —New York Times Book Review "When the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world launched a second byline, she actually stepped up her writing a level." —TIME Faith Severn has grown up with the dark cloud of murder looming over her family. Her aunt Vera Hillyard, a rigidly respectable...
Author
Publisher
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
NOW COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL FIVE INSTALLMENTS OF EDWARD ST. AUBYN'S CELEBRATED PATRICK MELROSE NOVELS Now a 5-Part Limited Event Series on Showtime, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Blythe Danner Edward St. Aubyn has penned one of the most acclaimed series of the decade with the Patrick Melrose Novels. Now you can read all five novels in one volume: Never Mind, Bad News, Mother's Milk, Some Hope, and At Last. By turns harrowing...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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“The very first thing I remember is standing on the water-butt in the garden, with my Mum holding me to stop me falling, singing 'I'm On Top of the World' , and the smell of the new wood in the hot sun. And something do with Mum's silver necklace. Amy doesn't remember any of that. Her very first memory is our wolfhound Ivan knocking her over in a puddle. Or it might be eating a boiled egg, and looking at the daisies on her kitchen tablecloth.”...
24) The skeleton key
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Driven into seclusion by her father's obsessed fans, Nell returns home to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her father's book "The Golden Bones"--a picture book with puzzles and clues leading to seven sites where jewels, each a different part of a skeleton, were buried--which is being reissued along with a documentary crew to film what happens after he finally reveals the location of the last hidden bone.
"This reunion will tear a family apart...
25) Dombey and Son
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Series
Everyman's library volume 167
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A rich and pompous merchant is plagued by loneliness and misfortune
To Paul Dombey, business is everything and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially... A depiction of a man imprisoned by his own pride, this title explores the devastating effects of emotional deprivation on a dysfunctional family and on society as a whole.
Introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Annotation. Dickens...
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