Author:Isak Dinesen
If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, they derive their themes and locales from Isak Dinesen's childhood in Denmark. Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931.
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
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