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Lucy's Child - Shaun Hutson

Description: ISBN 0751507695 / Author: Shaun Hutson / Genre: Horror / Beth is a conservative married woman. Her younger sister,Lucy, lives rough in a ... more

Lucy's Child - Shaun Hutson ... world of drugs and casual sex. However, Lucy can do the one thing which Beth can't - she is able to bear a child...

Newest Review: ... Beth Parker is Conservative with a capital C. She is married to a psychiatrist, works as a secretary and lives happily in ... more

... suburbia. That is until the unexpected arrival on her doorstep of her younger sister, Lucy, who disappeared into a seamy, drug-ridden world after the death of their parents in a fire. They're like chalk and cheese, these sisters. However, Beth grudgingly gives up her spare room to Lucy who proceeds to cause absolute mayhem until her death in a road accident. Yet, even after death, Lucy has something which Beth desperately wants but can't have - a child. I am saying no more, for fear of giving away the plot. For...more

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Lucy's Child - Shaun Hutson: Everybody's doing it! (714 words)
by - written on 07/02/01 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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There has been some good-natured (?) banter recently amongst certain members of the dooyoo community about which of us has the right to claim the title of Stephen King's 'number 1 fan'. Now, I don't wish to re-open any old wounds, but I do regard Stephen King as the master of horror writers - hence he becomes my benchmark in submitting a review of 'Lucy's Child' by Shaun Hutson. Could Hutson ever measure up to the 'Master'? (Could anyone?) Some years ago, I bought and read some of Hutson's earlier horror novels (Slugs, Spawn etc) - and I hated them. With a passion. So, I still don't know what posessed me to buy ... Read the complete review