Author: Rendell, Ruth, 1930-2015.
Publication year: 1980
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Arrow Books,
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780099106500 (pbk)
Notes:
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1974.
Extent: 183p. ; 18cm.
Description: Two years ago he was a promising young novelist. Now he barely survives, in a near-derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla, but the affair is over and the long slide into deception and violence has just begun. Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . .