The Chimney-sweeper's Boy
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Author | Barbara Vine |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Crime / Mystery novel |
Publisher | Viking |
Released | 26 March 1998 |
Media type | Print/Audiobook |
Pages | 352 (hardback) |
ISBN | ISBN 0-670-87927-4 |
Preceded by | The Brimstone Wedding |
Followed by | Grasshopper |
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy is a novel by Barbara Vine, pseudonym of British author Ruth Rendell.
[edit] Plot summary
When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?