The Woman in Black - Couverture rigide

Hill, Susan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846685621 ISBN 13 : 9781846685620

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 1983, The Woman in Black is Susan Hill's best-loved novel, and the basis for the UK's second longest ever running stage play, and a major film starring Daniel Radcliffe. Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer, travels to a remote village to put the affairs of a recently deceased client, Alice Drablow in order. As he works alone in her isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover disturbing secrets - and his unease grows when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed in black. The locals are strangely unwilling to talk about the unsettling occurrence, and Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent...

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

‘I did not believe in ghosts’

Few attend Mrs Alice Drablow’s funeral, and not one blood relative amongst them. There are undertakers with shovels, of course, a local official who would rather be anywhere else, and one Mr Arthur Kipps, solicitor from London. He is to spend the night in Eel Marsh House, the place where the old recluse died amidst a sinking swamp, a blinding fog and a baleful mystery about which the townsfolk refuse to speak.

Young Mr Kipps expects a boring evening alone sorting out paperwork and searching for Mrs Drablow’s will. But when the high tide pens him in, what he finds – or rather what finds him – is something else entirely.

BACKSTORY: Discover some more classic ghost stories and some real-life ones too...

Turn to page 55 to read about Arthur’s first sighting of the woman in black…

Quatrième de couverture :

'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily Express

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1846685621
• ISBN 13: 9781846685620
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224