Buy this book on-line RENDELL**, RUTH: : THE GIRL NEXT DOOR - A NovelUSA.NY. SCRIBNERS,2014. ISBN 9781476784328.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Stated First Scribner hardcover edition October 2014.] NMINT/NMINT. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with red+ white lettering,with critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges with a green ink dash(-) towards head of spine/backstrip,fore-edges bright and clean; otherwise contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain red paper-covered boards with black cloth blind spine with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.US,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,1-272pp [paginated] includes 28 chapters; plus [unpaginated] 3pp publisher's advert for author's other works/titles,title page,a dedication,title separator page,a note about the author after the last paginated page,and 3pp blanks also at the rear.
In the waning months of the Second World War,a group of children discover earthen tunnels in their neighbourhood outside London.
Throughout the summer of 1944 - until one father forbids it - the subterranean spaces become their "secret gardens",where the friends play games and tell stories.
Six decades later,beneath a house on the same land,construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands,one male and one female.As the discovery makes national news,the friends come together again to recall their days in the tunnels for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these ageing friends and their memories?
This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface.Mild-mannered Alan,stuck in a passionless marriage,begins flirting with Daphne,a glamorous widow who was once his teenage sweetheart.Michael,lonely after the death of his wife,considers contacting his estranged father,who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944.
Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James,an army private who once accompanied the children into the tunnels and who later disappeared.
In 'The Girl Next Door',Rendell brilliantly shatters all of our most deep-seated assumptions about age,showing that the choices people make - and the emotions behind them - remain as potent in late life as they were in youth.
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