Product Description
Writing under her Vine pseudonym, Ruth Rendell offers another intriguing psychological thriller. Clodagh Brown is telling tales from her childhood adventures and her love of heights. Indeed, as a teenager, she survived a tragic accident that killed her first love when they went climbing pylons, whose steel arms carried electricity across nearby fields. In college, she found classes boring but fell in with a group of roof climbers, who spent their evenings walking the roofs of London. The youthful idealists decided to help a couple being harassed by tabloids accusing them of kidnapping a child. This ill-fated attempt led to a terrifying climax, which is the heart of the book. Although readers know that Clodagh survives, the story is enthralling and ingenious.
"...an ingenious story told by a master of suspense." (Publishers Weekly)
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12 1.5-hour cassettes
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Listening to a Barbara Vine, aka Ruth Rendell, is usually an even greater pleasure than a print reading. However, this narration by Bernadette Dunne is an unfortunate exception. Why an old-fashioned-sounding, American accent is applied to an entirely modern, non-American cast is puzzling and disappointing.The story is thrilling; a group of young people scales the rooftops of London, causing myriad incidents--both good and bad. Each character and incident are verbalized identically. The story moves back and forth over 11 years, but this is very difficult to follow because there is no differentiation to account for the time shift. This is a disappointing entry to the Rendell/Vine body of audio work. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine--
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