The Chimney Sweepers Boy
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - a classic crime novel by bestselling prize-winning author Barbara Vine'Gripping almost impossible to put down' Guardian'One of the most frightening novels I have ever read ... Gerald Candless the monster at the heart of the maze is a marvellous creation' Amanda Craig Express on SundayWhen 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?'So ingeniously constructed its truth and falsehoods are so deftly and convincingly interwoven that its solution ... is as jolting as a flash of lightning' Sunday Times'About the power of taboos transgressions guilts deceptions horrors atonements upsets and upheavals ... gripping' IndependentIf you enjoy the crime novels of P.D. James Ian Rankin and Scott Turow you will love The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell. She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym including A Fatal Inversion and King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. Her other books include: A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present and The Child's Child.
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Barbara Vine
Barbara Vine was the pen-name of Ruth Rendell, and Viking published all of her books under that name. Rendell was an exceptional crime writer, with worldwide sales of approximately 20 million copies, and regular Sunday Times bestsellers. Rendell won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View, a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986, and the Sunday Times Literary Award in 1990. In 2013 she was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
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