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CLARK**, MARY HIGGINS: : NO PLACE LIKE HOME

LONDON.SIMON & SCHUSTER UK Ltd.,2005.

ISBN 0743268067.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj front with author's capitalised,embossed gilt-lettered name,and capitalised white-lettered title and capitalised,pale blue lettered THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER line; spine/backstrip with thumbnail colour photograph from front to head of spine,with author's capitalised,graduated shading to gold coloured lettered name and capitalised,white-lettered title and publisher’s capitalised,white-lettered +illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with critics' white+pale blue lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges with light ageing/ toning,else clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean/ unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 1-368pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,80 chapters and an Epilogue; plus [unpaginated] half-title,publisher's list of author's published titles,a title page,and to the rear, 10pp blanks.                                      Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation,for a book of its near 20 year-old age.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading overall. Despite that it is still an exceptional example for its cleanliness and lack of detracting faults.                                          A young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever . . . her childhood home.There,at the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother,trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather,Ted Cartwright.Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act,the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident.Many people, however,agreed with Cartwright,and tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden,pointing even to the similarity of their names.                                            To erase Liza's past,her adoptive parents changed her name to Celia.At age twenty-eight,a successful interior designer in Manhattan,Celia marries a childless sixty-year old widower, Laurence Foster,and they have a son.Before their marriage,she reveals to him her true identity. Two years later,on his deathbed,he makes her swear to never tell to anyone so that their son, Jack,will not carry the stigma of her past.      Two years later,Celia is happily re-married.But her peace of mind is shattered when her new husband,Alex Nolan, surprises her with a gift - the house where she killed her mother.On the day they move in,they find the words LITTLE LIZZIE'S PLACE - BEWARE painted on the lawn, splotches of red paint all over the house,and a skull and crossbones carved into the door.                 More and more,there are signs that someone in the community knows Celia's true identity.When Georgette Grove,the real estate agent who sold the house to Alex,is brutally murdered and Celia is the first on the crime scene, she becomes a suspect.                                          As Celia fights to prove her innocence,she is not aware that she and her son,Jack,are now the targets of a killer. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!         N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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