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Vine, Barbara

 
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Synopsis

Barbara Vine's 10th novel, her first since the bestselling and highly acclaimed THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER'S BOY, is about a group of young people who live in a top-floor flat and literally walk the rooftops of Maida Vale. It's narrated by Clodagh, nineteen when the story takes place and already damaged by the death of her boyfriend. When the group gets involved with a family that's on the run from the law, it looks like history is going to repeat itself. An enthralling, chilling novel - a kind of brilliant mirror-image of Vine's acclaimed London Underground novel KING SOLOMON'S CARPET. "She goes for the imagination as a lesser writer would go for the jugular" - Literary Review

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À propos de l?auteur

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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