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The
Chimney Sweeper's Boy
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ISBN: 0140272348 (UK); 0671034294 (USA) |
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Asta's Book |
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?
Barbara Vine is Ruth Rendell, the bestselling crime novelist. As Barbara Vine she is the author of several award-winning novles, including A Dark-Adapted Eye, which won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award; A Fatal Inversion, winner of the 1987 Crime Writer's Association Gold dagger Award; and Asta's Book, shortlisted for the 1993 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. Ruth Rendell is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1991 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Diamond Dagger for a lifetime's achievement in crime writing. In 1997 she was created a life peer and took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh. |
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