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A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty. As old Lydia Perceval plans to destroy yet another group of impressionable young children's love for their parents, the list of those who would have her die grows longer.Tags
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Robert Barnard takes a look at a personality trait in a woman that affects all the people around her and eventuates in a circumstance leading to murder. It is a subtle well done story.
more class conscious British mystery in murder of snobbish writer who has a history of attaching other peoples sons to her.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1992
- People/Characters
- Charlie Peace; Lydia Perceval; Andy Hoddle; Thea Hoddle; Robert Loxton; Maurice Hoddle
- Important events
- Bly, Yorkshire, England
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- Members
- 145
- Popularity
- 227,087
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.46)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
- ASINs
- 3
