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Seller: Marlowes Books and Music, Ferny Grove, QLD, AustraliaMarlowes Books and Music
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Item description from seller
295 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.
Seller Inventory # 152427
- Title
- The Water's Lovely
- Author
- Rendell Ruth
- Publisher
- Hutchinson, London
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- None Issued
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0091797330
- ISBN 13
- 9780091797331
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Seller catalogs
- Crime/Mystery - Fiction
The award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue.
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way.
She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather’s lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, “Don’t look!”
The dead man was Ismay’s stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother had lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had disappeared.
Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They got on well. They always had. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day. . .
But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge.
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way.
She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather’s lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, “Don’t look!”
The dead man was Ismay’s stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother had lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had disappeared.
Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They got on well. They always had. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day. . .
But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge.
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About the Author
Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, The New Girl Friend; a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary Award, as well as the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.
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Marlowes Books and Music
Ferny Grove, QLD, Australia
5-star seller
AbeBooks seller since June 28, 2004
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Business Overview - A.B.N Number: 24105299289
Marlowes Books is one of Australia's largest marketplaces for books. Marlowes is an 'Online' bookseller of hard to find, rare, used and out of print books centrally located in Brisbane, Australia.
Our stock - We specialize in - Rare, Out of Print, Collectible and Hard to Find Books. We offer over 33,000 Books in over 90 categories which are all stocked in our own warehouse in Brisbane, QLD. Our orders are dispatched daily throughout Australia and around the globe.
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