WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/198494429

The Water's Lovely, a novel

Ismay and her sister, Heather, lived in a house in Clapham. Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They never discussed the changes to the house. But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And the truth will emerge.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "Agua está espléndida"
  • "Water's lovely"@tr

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "Ismay has always believed that her sister, Heather, was responsible for the drowning death of their stepfather; but it is not until years later that she finally begins investigating and discovers that the man's death and hidden secrets have had a major influence on the lives of each member of the family."
  • "Ismay and her sister, Heather, lived in a house in Clapham. Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They never discussed the changes to the house. But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And the truth will emerge."@en
  • "The answer to the long ago unsolved mystery of the drowning of two sisters' step-father will inevitably emerge as the years go by."
  • "Ismay et Heather vivent dans la maison où est mort leur beau-père, neuf ans auparavant. Depuis, la demeure a été divisée en deux appartements : leur mère occupe celui du haut, Ismay et Heather se partagent l'autre. Si ces dernières s'entendent très bien, jamais elles n'évoquent les changements intervenus dans la maison, ni ce terrible jour d'août. Mais les mensonges cachés risquent de ressurgir."
  • ""Desde hace nueve años, la joven Ismay tiene un sueño recurrente: sube junto a su madre las escaleras de casa tras los pasos de su hermana menor, Heather, cuyo vestido se encuentra completamente empapado. Al llegar al cuarto de baño del piso de arriba su madre le grita que no mire, pero ella es incapaz de apartar los ojos del cuerpo de Guy, su padrastro, que yace ahogado en la banera. Desgraciadamente para la familia Sealand, la escena fue real antes de convertirse en sueño. Ahora, tras nueve años de secretos y silencio, tanto Ismay como Heather tienen novio. El de Ismay se parece sospechosamente al difunto Guy. El de Heather vive con una madre extremadamente posesiva. Dos situaciones conflictivas que hacen que Ismay no le quite el ojo de encima a su hermana"--Back cover."
  • "A decade after the killing of her stepfather, Ismay is still haunted by nightmares of his murder and of seeing his naked body floating in the bathtub and her sister, Heather, standing over him."
  • "A decade after the killing of her stepfather, Ismay is still haunted by nightmares of his murder and of seeing his naked body floating in the bathtub and her sister, Heather, standing over him."@en
  • "Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then, something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble."
  • "When Ismay and Heather's stepfather was discovered dead in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded the drowning was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have had something to do with it. Now they're older and their lives seem to be moving happily forward. But when Heather becomes seriously involved with a man for the first time, Ismay's long-repressed memories can no longer be ignored. With painful inevitability, Ismay learns that she may not able to keep the dark truth hidden forever."@en
  • "Ismay, Heather and their mother still live in the house where her stepfather drowned in the bathtub. They don't discuss his death or the changes made to the house because of it, but secrets hang in the air and truth emerges."
  • "Een vrouw heeft altijd gedacht dat haar zuster destijds hun stiefvader in bad heeft verdronken en overweegt, nu die zuster op het punt staat te trouwen, haar verdenkingen openbaar te maken."
  • "The prolific (and never, ever boring) Rendell delivers another gripping tale of psychological suspense, this one centering on murder within a family. It begins with a house, the scene of a bathtub murder, but it ends with the tsunami in Indonesia. In between, Rendell's characters are forced to reflect on the hopelessness of the past ever being washed away. The central event takes place long before the book opens: a 13-year-old girl drowns her stepfather in the bathtub. That girl, Heather, is grown up, as is her sister, Ismay. The scene of the crime has been boarded up as a room, and the family lives without acknowledging that the crime has been boarded up as well. What are the effects of this silent domestic pact? Rendell explores this question to creepy-crawly effect, as Heather prepares to marry. Ismay, conflicted over whether she should tell the fiance about her sister's past, struggles with the question of whether Heather is likely to kill again. Combining potent imagery and exquisite plotting, Rendell twists the knife of suspense in a wonderfully excruciating way."@en
  • "'Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, "Don't look!"' The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lives upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy drowned, has been demolished. But Death will rear its ugly head once more... Ismay and Heather get on well. They always have. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day. But as their love lives start to develop, someone is murdered along the way, and long buried suspicions re-emerge with potentially tragic results."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Spannung"
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Detective novels"
  • "Crime & mystery"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Detektivní romány"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "English fiction"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Suspense fiction"

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Döden genom vatten"@sv
  • "El agua está espléndida"
  • "El agua está espléndida"@es
  • "The Water's Lovely, a novel"@en
  • "The water is lovely"
  • "Et l'eau devint sang"
  • "The water's lovely"
  • "The water's lovely"@en
  • "Het stille huis"
  • "El Agua está espléndida"
  • "Su çok güzel"
  • "Su çok güzel"@tr
  • "Die Unschuld des Wassers"
  • "Die Unschuld des Wassers : Roman"
  • "Et l'eau devint sang : roman"
  • "The water's lovely : a novel"
  • "The water's lovely : a novel"@en
  • "Die Unschuld des Wassers Roman"
  • "Et L'Eau Devint Sang"
  • "The Water's Lovely"@en
  • "The water's lovely a novel"@en
  • "Mrazivé mlčení"

workExample

http://schema.org/workExample