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Published by Jove, 1992
ISBN 10: 0515108278ISBN 13: 9780515108279
Seller: The Book Abyss, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. Store Stamped. --- --- The latest domestic chiller from the author of "Mother Love" stars Victoria Courtenay, beautiful, charming and depraved. Raised in genteel English poverty following WW II, she decides early on that she deserves the best, finding a means to that end in Gerald Bramall, a happily married squire but no match for a will, or a body, like Victoria's. After his wife's suicide, Gerald marries Victoria, and his two nearly grown children step out of his life. Victoria gives birth to Lottie, whom she despises, and Rienzo, whom she indulges to excess. Lottie leaves home at age 16; Rienzo kills himself in a car crash; Gerald dies conveniently. As her self-absorption plumbs new psychotic depths, Victoria looks for another mate to father the perfect child she knows she is meant to produce. The man she catches is Lottie's boyfriend, and the complex events that follow comprise the main narrative of this overwrought, heavy-handed tale. The action is compressed into the final third of the book and important questions--such as why Taylor's men are such amiable weaklings--are left unanswered. . .See photos for additional content. . .
Published by Constable, London, 1987
ISBN 10: 0094681309ISBN 13: 9780094681309
Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition first printing of the seventh novel in the Dan Mallett series. Also published under the title Bird in the Net. In near fine / near fine condition.