| Edition |
First world edition. |
| Description |
276 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
Growing up in the poverty-stricken years after the Second World War, eleven-year-old Alice and her brother Orlando enjoy an idyllic childhood on the Kent coast. But their carefree innocence is set to be shattered by the arrival of London-born Nicola Stone. Precocious, manipulative and sexually aware, Nicola causes trouble wherever she goes. But on Alice's twelfth birthday, Nicola disappears, and it's Alice and Orlando who discover her bruised and battered body while blackberry picking the following day. The case is never solved. It's only twenty years later, when the now grown-up Alice returns to the small Kentish town of her childhood, that she is able to ask searching questions among those who were present at that birthday party. Someone who was there is hiding the truth. Could it be Bertram Yelland, the bad-tempered art teacher who was having an affair with Nicola? Or Sasha Elias, the German-Jewish piano teacher whose family died in the concentration camps? Or will Alice be forced to face the unthinkable: could it be Orlando, her quiet, bookish brother?--From inside front book jacket. |
| Subject |
Murder -- England -- Kent -- Fiction.
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Siblings -- Fiction.
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Kent (England) -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780727880147 hardback $28.95 |
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0727880144 hardback |
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