A Helping Hand
Language: English
Published by Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1986
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Raymond Tait, Beccles, Suffolk, United KingdomRaymond Tait
AbeBooks seller since June 21, 2007
Condition: Used - Very good
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Second hardcover edition published by Constable in 1986. Originally published by Macmillan in 1966. Boards have slight bumping to the top and bottom corners, a slight spine lean and a few light marks to the front panel. Browning to the page edges and endpapers. Pages are browned around the edges but otherwise clean and unmarked. Price clipped jacket has slight edge and surface wear and browning to flaps but is otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket illustration by Bill Butcher. First printing of this edition.
Seller Inventory # 021997
- Title
- A Helping Hand
- Author
- Dale, Celia
- Publisher
- Constable & Company Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Original Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0094664706
- ISBN 13
- 9780094664708
- Illustrator
- Butcher, Bill
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Mrs Fingal, a wealthy widow, finds the couple a refreshing change to her resentful niece and their understanding and sympathy to her situation, her loneliness and need for companionship, makes them the perfect people to look after her. Moving in with them is the ideal solution - one that is satisfactory to all parties.
Beneath the suburban net-curtained world of genteel respectability, however, lurks the much darker and chilling terror of greed and exploitation - deadly currents that are masked by polite conversation and cups of tea.
'Celia Dale's writing is quiet, clever, subtle - and terrifying. I can't think of anyone whose stories of suspense I appreciate more.' Ruth Rendell
'The accuracy, understanding and quiet wit of Jane Austen - plus murder.' H. R. F. Keating
A Helping Hand was first published in 1966.
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Raymond Tait
Beccles, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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