The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
- a classic crime novel by bestselling prize-winning author Barbara Vine' Gripping almost impossible to put down' Guardian' One of the most frightening novels I have ever read Gerald Candless the monster at the heart of the maze is a marvellous creation' Amanda Craig Express on Sunday When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack his eldest adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him & soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at all But then who was he? & what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?' So ingeniously constructed its truth & falsehoods are so deftly & convincingly interwoven that its solution is as jolting as a flash of lightning' Sunday Times' About the power of taboos transgressions guilts deceptions horrors atonements upsets & upheavals gripping' Independent If you enjoy the crime novels of PD James Ian Rankin & Scott Turow you will love The Chimney Sweeper's Boy Barbara Vine is the pen-name of Ruth Rendell She has written fifteen novels using this pseudonym including A Fatal Inversion & King Solomon's Carpet which both won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award Her other books include A Dark Adapted Eye; The House of Stairs; Gallowglass; Asta's Book; No Night Is Too Long; In the Time of His Prosperity; The Brimstone Wedding; The Chimney Sweeper's Boy; Grasshopper; The Blood Doctor; The Minotaur; The Birthday Present & The Child's Child