· The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine Septem J ~ Margaret I’ve had The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine sitting on my unread shelves for a while and when the R.I.P. IX Challenge came up I thought it would be a good book to include in the challenge, because the cover blurbs describe it as a ‘horrifying mystery. · At first blush, the premise of this story is a bit hokey. THE BRIMSTONE WEDDING is about a seemingly reserved and proper housewife, Stella Newland, who begins to confide in her carer, Geneieve Warner, about her secrets. They are both women of secrets: Stella's 30 year old love affair and Geneieve's brand-new one/5(). The Brimstone Wedding - a masterful mystery about love and madness by bestseller Barbara Vine 'Intriguing, absorbing and compelling' Spectator Jenny's marriage is loveless, and she is having an affair. She works at an old people's home, where she is especially fond of Stella, a gracious, dignified woman dying of cancer - whose own secrets parallel Jenny's - with the difference that she may Reviews:
Buy The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 11 editions - starting at $ Shop now. Title: Brimstone Wedding (Paragon Softcover Large Print Books) Author (s): Barbara Vine. ISBN: / (UK edition) Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon C. Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA. The Brimstone Wedding by Barbara Vine. British Literature Decem Superfast Reader. Synopsis: An elderly woman's recollections of a love that ended in tragedy shed new light on a married woman's illicit affair. Review: Wordpress keeps eating this review, and I don't have the energy to write it a third time. Suffice it to say.
The Brimstone wedding isn't really a murder mystery. It's a retrospective romance revealed in very slow motion to a much younger woman who is going through her own affair - there are similarities in the two stories,and a bltadwin.ru places where the divergences are particularly apparent. a death is involved so to that extent it is a mystery. This, "The Brimstone Wedding", is yet another masterpiece of atmospheric fiction from Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell). Yet again she synthesises her twin storylines one in the past, one in the present brilliantly, and they eerily mirror each other down the generations. Brimstone Wedding (Mass Market Paperback) Published July 1st by Penguin Canada. Mass Market Paperback, pages. Author (s): Barbara Vine. ISBN: X (ISBN ) Edition language: English.
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