 Author Name: Laurie R. King
Title: Folly (Uk Edition)
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Near Fine
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS 20020715
ISBN Number: 0-00-711134-7 / 9780007111343
Seller ID: RWARE0000001432
A moving, resonant and haunting psychological suspense novel from an award- winning author. A lonely island off the northwest coast of America. A ruine d folly. A woman's fight to reconstruct her life after the devastating loss of her husband and daughter. A threat from the past...Rae Newborn, shatter ed after a catastrophic nervous breakdown and an attempted rape, is left on a deserted island off the coast of Washington State. Her aim is single-han dedly to rebuild a family house destroyed by fire back in the nineteen twen ties. All she wants is to be left in peace, but memories and real life intr ude. Her nights are haunted by ghosts from her past and fears that the mons ters lying there will return; her days interrupted by unwelcome visits from the local police and a mysterious intruder. But her tranquillity is truly disturbed when she makes a discovery in the foundations of the house, one t hat throws a dark shadow over her whole family history. What really happene d on the island eighty years ago? And what was the truth behind her great u ncle's disappearance after his return, shell-shocked, from the trenches of the First World War? Violence comes down through the years to explode once again on the isolated island, this time threatening to destroy not just Rae but future generations as well...
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