It's love... what could go wrong?
When Josh proposes in a pod on the London Eye at New Years' Eve, he thinks
Mary Miller had always been an outcast.
Burnt in a chemical mix as a young girl, sympathy for her quickly faded
Arthur Parkinson's town garden is like a path of pots, a tiny, exposed stage on bricks.
Despite its small size,
The book that began Ian Rankins phenomenal career.
Mary Miller had always been an outcast. Burnt in a chemical mix as a young girl, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion & fascination by her God-fearing community.
Now, years later, she is a single mother, caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher. Her son, Sandy, has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl. The search for happiness isnt easy.
Both mother & son must face a dark secret from their past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols & flickering images
- of decay & regrowth, of fire & water
- of the flood.
An atmospheric crime novel that will appeal to all lovers of Rankin.
This paperback book has 251 pages & measures: 17.7 x 11 x 1.8cm.