Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs byhis family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangenessis grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters, who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway.
Despite being treated as an outsider,Kerstin is nevertheless determined to help John .But she soon discovers that there are others in the family who are equally as determined that John remain isolated,forsinister reasons of their own…
作者简介:
Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell.She has written thirteen 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.
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