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Kerstin Kvist didn't quite know what to expect when she took up a job with the Cosway family at their odd, almost grand home, Lydstep Old Hall, deep in the Essex countryside. lived with her three unmarried daughters, in thrall to the old lady. A mysterious fourth daughter - a widow herself and apparently quite rich - came and went, with ill-disguised contempt for the others. More puzzling still was Mrs Cosway's son, John, a sad, self-absorbed figure in his thirties who haunted the house. There's madness in the family' offered one of the daughters by way of explanation, but Kerstin had trained as a nurse and knew it wasn't right to be administering such powerful drugs to a vulnerable figure like John. sex, lies and secrets within an apparently respectable family, at a time when the sixties revolution hadn't quite reached rural England.
Books by Barbara Vine:
- The Child's Child (2012)
- The Minotaur (2005)
- The House of Stairs (1989)
- The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (2006)
- The Birthday Present (2009)
- No Night is Too Long (1994)
- The Blood Doctor (2003)
