Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/08/2011
ISBN: 9780099528692
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 234g
RRP: £9.99
Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous 'rackman'. He installs his wife in part of the cottages in the hope that there she will recover from an unspecified malady. With a mounting sense of fear, Gladys and Annie become convinced she is possessed by an evil spirit...
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/08/2011
ISBN: 9780099528692
Length: 336 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 234g
RRP: £9.99
Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the 20th century
Gibbons was an acute and witty observer, and her dissection of the British class system is spot-on
Stella Gibbons is - as always -gay, satirical and entertaining