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A Dark-Adapted Eye written by Ruth Rendell as Barbara Vine performed by Harriet Walter on Audio CD (Unabridged)£24.99

"A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel."  P. D. James "Compulsively readable a carefully devised plot unfolded with the most cunning art. Wilkie Collins and Dickens would have admired it." Sunday Times Like most families they had their secrets and they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark...

The Minotaur written by Ruth Rendell as Barbara Vine performed by Sian Thomas on CD (Abridged)

The Minotaur written by Ruth Rendell as Barbara Vine performed by Sian Thomas on CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9780141806068
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Thriller
Duration:  195 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Ruth Rendell as Barbara Vine
Narrator 1:  Sian Thomas

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Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside.

The family turned out to be even odder than the house: the widowed Mrs Cosway lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others.

More puzzling still was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. 'There's madness in the family' offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn't right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John.

Barbara Vine's new book, her twelfth, is compelling in its depiction of the sex, lies and secrets within an apparently respectable family, at a time when the sixties revolution hadn't quite reached rural England.

Barbara Vine is a nom de plume of Ruth Rendell

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