Barbara Vine — The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

Paperback; 342pp.; Leesvouwtjes rug. -- Conditie: Goed; The obituaries for Gerald Candiess, who had died of a heart attack just days before he was due to have a bypass operation, were respectful. He had been, after all, an popular writer, a candidate for the Booker Prize prize. So his sudden death was a loss to literature as well as to his family and friends. The trouble was, as his daughter Sarah soon discovered when she embarked on a memoir of him, -very few of the facts so confidently printed in -the papers were trueIncredible though it might be, it seemed that her father had taken on a different identity at some point in his life that he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But if he wasn't Gerald Candless, who was he? And what terrible thinc had driven him to conceal his real identity even from his wife and children? Barbara Vine's extraordinarily rich new novel moves confidently between past and present among a wide range of characters and has at its centre a truly compelling mystery; Engels; ISBN10: 0670879371, ISBN13: 9780670879373