No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets.Įngland in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors, even murder. And they hid them under a genteelly, respectable veneer. Like most families, they had their secrets. A modern novel with the Victorian virtues of a carefully devised plot unfolded for the reader with the most cunning art. This is a rich, complex novel with an ingenuity in construction worthy of Wilkie Collins. The first Barbara Vine novel published by Viking in 1986
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