Grasshopper
Registered by Hapireada of Farnborough, Hampshire United Kingdom on 4/13/2007
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
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From the dustcover:
"Clodagh was nineteen when her parents packed her off to college and a relative's house in north London, two yers after the death on the pylon, the worst thing that had ever happened to her. They blamed her for it, everyone did, and that was why they were sending her away.
Maida Vale was unexpected. Not the suburban mock Tudor houses of her imagination, but mansions like Italian palaces and the towers of a Victorian metropolis. And not the kind of people to look after a lonely and wayward niece. It was obvious to Clodagh from the first that her aloof, academic cousin and his sitcom -star wife saw themselves as being exceptionally helpful in lending her their dingy basement flat. They knew nothing of her claustrophobia, that she felt free only in the wide open fields of her Suffolk home.
It was hardly surprising that she fell into the arms of Michael Silverman, or Silver, as everyone called him. He was generous and kind and thoughtful too. In his flat at the top of his parents' house he played host to a strange crew of young drop-outs whose pleasure was to range the rooftops. It was a happy, heady time until the moment when, on a trek fifty feet above the street, they looked into a window and saw a scene that was to lead to a tragedy as great as the death on the pylon.
A kind of mirror-image of Barbara Vine's great London Underground novel 'King Solomon's Carpet, Grasshopper is set, strangely but compellingly, on the rooftops of Maida Vale and its environs. Against this wonderfully evoked landscape, the lives of a group of young people become entwined in the haunting atmosphere of a vintage Barara Vine novel."
"Clodagh was nineteen when her parents packed her off to college and a relative's house in north London, two yers after the death on the pylon, the worst thing that had ever happened to her. They blamed her for it, everyone did, and that was why they were sending her away.
Maida Vale was unexpected. Not the suburban mock Tudor houses of her imagination, but mansions like Italian palaces and the towers of a Victorian metropolis. And not the kind of people to look after a lonely and wayward niece. It was obvious to Clodagh from the first that her aloof, academic cousin and his sitcom -star wife saw themselves as being exceptionally helpful in lending her their dingy basement flat. They knew nothing of her claustrophobia, that she felt free only in the wide open fields of her Suffolk home.
It was hardly surprising that she fell into the arms of Michael Silverman, or Silver, as everyone called him. He was generous and kind and thoughtful too. In his flat at the top of his parents' house he played host to a strange crew of young drop-outs whose pleasure was to range the rooftops. It was a happy, heady time until the moment when, on a trek fifty feet above the street, they looked into a window and saw a scene that was to lead to a tragedy as great as the death on the pylon.
A kind of mirror-image of Barbara Vine's great London Underground novel 'King Solomon's Carpet, Grasshopper is set, strangely but compellingly, on the rooftops of Maida Vale and its environs. Against this wonderfully evoked landscape, the lives of a group of young people become entwined in the haunting atmosphere of a vintage Barara Vine novel."
Being taken to the Chertsey MeetUp this evening.
Picked up from the Chertsey Meet Up this evening. I usually enjoy Barbara Vine very much.
A typical Barbara Vine, though not, I think, her best. There are two levels of suspense: the awful thing or things that you know are going to happen and which of the characters Clodagh eventually married. Needless to say, the horrors are quite violent and there's also quite a nice twist to the whole thing. And the husband ? - quite a satisfactory one.
Released at the Chertsey Meet Up this evening
Released 14 yrs ago (6/6/2009 UTC) at A Friend, A friend -- Controlled Releases
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