Asta's Book - Barbara Vine

A Dark-adapted Eye - Barbara Vine

A Dark Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine Barbara Vine is also known as the crime writer, Ruth Rendell and in A Dark Adapted Eye she writes a mystery that keeps the reader intrigued from the start. The style is that of a Victorian mystery rather than the fast paced modern crime thrillers. The reader is given hints and clues gradually as the story unfolds but it is not until almost the final chapter that we learn the whole story. There are still questions that the narrator tries to work through even after the reader finds out what happened. It is a rather old fashioned story and its problems are those of the time and these would not have become problems today in my opinion so ...

A Dark-adapted Eye - Barbara Vine

A Dark Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine Barbara Vine is also known as the crime writer, Ruth Rendell and in A Dark Adapted Eye she writes a mystery that keeps the reader intrigued from the start. The style is that of a Victorian mystery rather than the fast paced modern crime thrillers. The reader is given hints and clues gradually as the story unfolds but it is not until almost the final chapter that we learn the whole story. There are still questions that the narrator tries to work through even after the reader finds out what happened. It is a rather old fashioned story and its problems are those of the time and these would not have become problems today in my opinion so ...

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - Barbara Vine

The book tells the story of a popular author who dies suddenly of a heart attack. His eldest daughter Sarah is then asked to write a memoir of his life, but on doing so discovers that Gerald Candless is not who he says he was. It starts by telling the reader about a game the family play, which seems a bit meaningless to start with but ends up playing a big role in linking things together. After Gerald dies there is a lot of information from his wife's Ursula's point of view, which seems strange as it was Sarah who was asked to write the book. We hear a lot about how Ursula and Gerald met and their life together right up until the present time. The book moves from past to present ...

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - Barbara Vine

The book tells the story of a popular author who dies suddenly of a heart attack. His eldest daughter Sarah is then asked to write a memoir of his life, but on doing so discovers that Gerald Candless is not who he says he was. It starts by telling the reader about a game the family play, which seems a bit meaningless to start with but ends up playing a big role in linking things together. After Gerald dies there is a lot of information from his wife's Ursula's point of view, which seems strange as it was Sarah who was asked to write the book. We hear a lot about how Ursula and Gerald met and their life together right up until the present time. The book moves from past to present ...

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - Barbara Vine

Ruth Rendell, writing as Barbara Vine, once again uses her razor-sharp scalpel to dissect a dysfunctional family in "The Chimney Sweeper's Boy." She has done this many times before. Rendell shows how our "loved ones" have the power to destroy us and how families are the battlefield of humanity. This book is about Gerald Candless, a successful and famous novelist who has a wife, Ursula, and two daughters, Hope and Sarah. He treats his daughters like goddesses and he is indifferent and, at times, vicious to his wife. Sarah begins to do research for a biography about her father's life, and she finds that Gerald had hidden a secret identity ...

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - Barbara Vine

Ruth Rendell, writing as Barbara Vine, once again uses her razor-sharp scalpel to dissect a dysfunctional family in "The Chimney Sweeper's Boy." She has done this many times before. Rendell shows how our "loved ones" have the power to destroy us and how families are the battlefield of humanity. This book is about Gerald Candless, a successful and famous novelist who has a wife, Ursula, and two daughters, Hope and Sarah. He treats his daughters like goddesses and he is indifferent and, at times, vicious to his wife. Sarah begins to do research for a biography about her father's life, and she finds that Gerald had hidden a secret identity ...