Lesley Glaister
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The past haunts the present as a woman struggles to liberate herself from her family's dark history This masterfully written novel plumbs the mysteries of the female psyche in a tale of buried family secrets and obsessive love. Zelda is getting ready for a date with her older lover, Foxy, whom she's sure is about to dump her, when the call comes. Zelda's father has hanged himself. His suicide brings back terrifying childhood memories of screams...
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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Award:Lesley Glaister's first novel is a twisty Gothic tale of familial terror and steadily mounting suspense In a decaying house in the marshy lowlands of England, four spinster sisters live in self-imposed isolation. For more than sixty years, Milly, Agatha, and the identical twins Ellen and Esther-"Ellenanesther"-have been trapped together, haunted by the specter of their dead father, whose...
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Three dark and mesmerizing novels from an award-winning writer. In Lesley Glaister's world, the domestic and the bizarre walk hand-in-hand. Limestone and Clay: Nadia is a sculptor driven by a single obsession: to conceive a child. When she learns that her geographer husband has donated his sperm to his former lover, who is now pregnant with his child, it is the ultimate betrayal-and warrants the ultimate payback. Digging to Australia: Twelve-year-old...
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Three seductive tales of psychological suspense. The Private Parts of Women: Inis has run away from her husband and children-and the rest of her suburban life in London-and moved into a small flat in the inner city of Sheffield. Her neighbor is eighty-four-year-old Trixie Bell, a hymn-singing veteran of the Salvation Army. But beneath Trixie's unassuming exterior lies a very different personality. Three very different personalities-one of which is...
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A lonely twelve-year-old fantasizes about escaping her dysfunctional family by digging a tunnel to the other side of the world Shy, lonely Jennifer Maybee lives with her weird, left-wing parents in a house where daily morning exercises are done in the buff and television is forbidden. She has few friends and spends most of her time alone. Her favorite book is Alice in Wonderland. A story about a distant ancestor who was transported to Australia on...