When a superstitious nurse in a rural old-age home reveals her relationship with a married man to a patient, she is given the key to a secret cottage that also unlocks a door into the patient's terrifying past. Reprint. PW. NYT. "
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A wise and unsettling tale of the power and poison of love, from the acknowledged queen of the English psychological mystery.
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Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love. A gracious, dignified woman, who's dying in an English nursing home, reveals the secrets of her erotic past to her young caretaker.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0786206713
- ISBN 13 9780786206711
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages530
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