Author:Isak Dinesen
Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar.
Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels, and Lincoln Forsner, an Englishman whose search for a woman he met in a brothel leads him into many strange adventures.
The words dropped, very precisely, like pebbles into a pool. They spread ripples of menace and foreboding . . . Ruth Rendell hasd the extraordinary faculty of summing up life in a single phraseor sentence . . . A mesmeric collection
—— Daily TelegraphDisturbing, atmospheric, inventive and surprising . . . Rendell's capacity to enter the souls of the emotionally bruised is a marvel
—— The TimesRendell's consistent talent for creating plot, combined with her uncanny grasp of contemporary experience, makes this a winning volume
—— Mail on SundayWonderful at exploring the dark corners of the human mind, and the way private fantasies can clash and explode into terrifying violence
—— Daily MailChief Inspector Wexford is Rendell’s most enduring and best creation
—— Daily Telegraph
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