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Title | The Brimstone Wedding | Height | 198 mm |
Author | Barbara Vine | Width | 129 mm |
ISBN-13 | 9780140252804 | Binding | PAPERBACK |
ISBN-10 | #0140252800 | Spine Width | 130 mm |
Publisher | PENGUIN BOOKS | Pages | 320 |
Edition | Availability | In Stock |

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The Brimstone Wedding
Author: Barbara Vine
Jennys marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old peoples home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jennys - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lovers husband . . . Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of Jennys marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old peoples home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jennys - with the difference that she may have been involved in murdering her lovers husband . . . Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love.