- Fiction, Friendship, Women, Curiosity
January 1987. Alix Bowen has moved away from London and her old friends Liz and Esther to South Yorkshire. Regularly visiting a serial killer in a high-security prison, her natural curiosity in his motives and character transforms into obsession as she begins to look to the murderer for answers about human nature and herself.
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Classical in form, prestige, character-led and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Drabble
- First published
- September 1990
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Penguin, Penguin Books, Limited, ISIS Audio Books
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780771028663
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