000 00825nam a2200169 4500
020 _a9780140086362
024 _a60261763
050 _aPR6068.E63
082 _a823.914
100 1 _aBarbara Vine
245 1 _aA Dark-adapted Eye
260 _bPenguin Books Ltd
300 _a304 pages
520 _aLike most families they had their secrets. And they hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that prim Vera Hillyard and her beautiful, adored younger sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred, so they had to use every means necessary to keep the truth hidden behind closed doors, even murder. 'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' - P. D. James.
650 _aMystery
999 _c15397
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