Octavo, hardcover, VG in somewhat edgeworn black and blue pictorial dj. The first book written under this pseudonym, and the author 's first novel-a story of the occult. An American woman unravels the ancient rites & primitive traditions that led to her husband's untimely death. 318 pp. First US printing.

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Title: The Widow of Ratchets
Publisher: NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. First US printing.
Publication Date: 1979
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0030402964
ISBN 13: 9780030402968
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
Book Type: Book

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The Widow of Ratchets tells the slightly supernatural and highly ominous story of American Lyndsay Kramer Dolben, an attractive newly wed who arrives in England to rejoin her husband only to be immediately informed of his recent death. Overcome with grief, the young widow travels to Ratchets, the remote village where Michael's family has lived for centuries. But even before the funeral arrangements are completed, Lyndsay begins to suspect that the traditions of the town and its inhabitants, especially their unorthodox reverence for the Land, are frighteningly peculiar. The unraveling of these ancient and bloody fertility rituals and incestuous primitive taboos keeps her intellectually and emotionally occupied for the remainder of this awesome and gripping story.

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