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| Management number | 240214480 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | $6.40 | Model Number | 240214480 | ||
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<p>'Complex, with lots of sinister implications... moves the traditional crime novel on to some deeper level of exploration' Jane Jakeman, Independent</p> <p>It is 1970. David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future, brings home a new wife to Roth. Throughout the summer, the consequences of the marriage reverberate through a village now submerged in a sprawling London suburb.</p> <p>Blinded by lust, Byfield is oblivious to the dangers that lie all about him: the menopausal churchwarden with a hopeless passion for her priest; his beautiful, neglected teenage daughter Rosemary; and the sinister presence of Frances Youlgreave - poet, opium addict and suicide - whose power stretches beyond the grave.</p> <p>Soon the murders and blasphemies begin. But does the responsibility lie in the present or the past? And can Byfield, a prisoner of his own passion, break through to the truth before the final tragedy destroys what he most cherishes?</p>
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Fiction |
| Genre | Literature & Fiction |
| Publication date | February, 2001 |
| Pages | 384 |
| Reading level | General |
| Subgenre | Mystery & Detective |
| Series title | Roth Trilogy |
| Number in series | 2 |
| Edition | Revised Edition |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Is collectible | N |
| Character | David Byfield, Rosemary, Frances Youlgreave |
| Recording time | 0 min |
| Retail packaging | Single Piece |
| Assembled product dimensions (l x w x h) | 4.37 x 0.96 x 7.00 in |
| Assembled product weight | 0.58 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Fiction |
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