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A Dark-adapted Eye

Paperback • 1987 • English

A Dark-adapted Eye

By Barbara Vine

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

Like most families they had their secrets . . . And hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that Vera Hillyard and her beautiful sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred . . . so they had to fight it out behind closed curtains using every weapon they had. In this case, murder. 'Full of shifts and surprises . . . a modern novel with the Victorian virtues of a carefully dev...Show more

Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction

Book details

ISBN

9780140086362

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

1987

Language

English

Original title

A Dark-adapted Eye

Format

Paperback

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