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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.
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... Read More