Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/02/2004
ISBN: 9780099470472
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
RRP: £8.99
Discover John Fowles’ compelling classic first novel
‘Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones’ Sunday Times
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger, art student Miranda. Coming into unexpected money, he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda, believing she will grow to love him in time.
Alone and desperate, Miranda must struggle to understand her captor if she is to gain her freedom…
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 05/02/2004
ISBN: 9780099470472
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
RRP: £8.99
"He has a magnificent narrative gift...brilliant"
"A brilliant, unusual theme... Short and spare and direct, an intelligent thriller with psychological and social overtones"
"Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power"
"No book will make you appreciate the great outdoors more than this creepy locked-room horror story"
"There is not a page in this first novel which does not prove that its author is a master storyteller"