Penguin Celebrations: The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - Barbara Vine

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Penguin : Penguin Celebrations
Paperback : 06 Sep 2007

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Penguin Celebrations: Unique voices, enthralling stories and quite simply the best books of their kind to be published in recent years. There are 36 to collect.

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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?

‘So ingeniously constructed, its truth and falsehoods are so deftly and convincingly interwoven, that its solution … is as jolting as a flash of lightning’ Sunday Times

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One of the most frightening novels I have ever read ... it combines an enthralling detective story with searching questions about the relationship between life and literature ... Gerald Candless, the monster at the heart of the maze, is a marvellous creation'
Amanda Craig, Express on Sunday

The mystery of Gerald Candless is so ingeniously constructed, its truth and falsehoods are so deftly and convincingly interwoven, that its solutionÉ is as jolting as a flash of lightning
Penny Perrick, Sunday Times

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