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Unlike the other elderly residents of Middleton Hall, Stella is smart, elegant and in control. Only Jenny, her young care assistant, guesses at the mystery in Stella's past.
As the two women share secrets, Jenny is intrigued by the relics of a long-ago love affair, and gradually pieces together an account of a shocking tragedy.
'Out of the mundane accessories of past existence, Vine fashions a tender, horrifying mystery ... The story, beautifully written, emerges delicately, yet with shocking, ironic force and breathtaking imagination'
- Marcel Berlins in The Times
'Barbara Vine takes the familiar ingredients of the crime novel ... and uses them to produce something much richer... With its powerful narrative, its attractive, flawed characters and its horrible climax, The Brimstone Wedding is a novel that is impossible to forget'
- Natasha Cooper in The Times Literary Supplement
As the two women share secrets, Jenny is intrigued by the relics of a long-ago love affair, and gradually pieces together an account of a shocking tragedy.
'Out of the mundane accessories of past existence, Vine fashions a tender, horrifying mystery ... The story, beautifully written, emerges delicately, yet with shocking, ironic force and breathtaking imagination'
- Marcel Berlins in The Times
'Barbara Vine takes the familiar ingredients of the crime novel ... and uses them to produce something much richer... With its powerful narrative, its attractive, flawed characters and its horrible climax, The Brimstone Wedding is a novel that is impossible to forget'
- Natasha Cooper in The Times Literary Supplement