The Girl Next Door (Signed)
Ruth Rendell

Observera att denna bok är på engelska. Please note that this book is in English.

The book is a hardcover with dust jacket. It is new, unread and in perfect condition, except that the edges are slightly yellowed.

Published by Hutchinson in 2014.
First edition, signed by the author
ISBN 9780091958831
Protected in a clear plastic wrapper.
The only signed copy I could find on the Internet costs £ 50.

In this psychologically explosive story from "one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation" (People), the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends.

In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighbourhood outside London. Throughout the summer of 1944—until one father forbids it—the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories.

Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and their memories?

This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface. Alan, stuck in a passionless marriage, begins flirting with Daphne, a glamorous widow. Michael considers contacting his estranged father, who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944. Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James, an army private who once accompanied the children into the tunnels, and who later disappeared.

In “The Girl Next Door” Rendell brilliantly shatters the assumptions about age, showing that the choices people make—and the emotions behind them—remain as potent in late life as they were in youth.

Format: 24x16x2,5 cm, 282 pages.

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