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The brimstone wedding

A tale of the power and the poison of love. The protagonists are two women in an old people's home in England, one a nurse, the other a patient. On learning of the nurse's affair with a married man, the patient is moved to reveal her own affair, one for which she bought a house, its existence unknown to her family and she gives the nurse the keys so she has a place for her clandestine rendezvous. The novel describes both romances, following them to their tragic ends. By the author of No Night Is Too Long.

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  • "A tale of the power and the poison of love. The protagonists are two women in an old people's home in England, one a nurse, the other a patient. On learning of the nurse's affair with a married man, the patient is moved to reveal her own affair, one for which she bought a house, its existence unknown to her family and she gives the nurse the keys so she has a place for her clandestine rendezvous. The novel describes both romances, following them to their tragic ends. By the author of No Night Is Too Long."
  • "A tale of the power and the poison of love. The protagonists are two women in an old people's home in England, one a nurse, the other a patient. On learning of the nurse's affair with a married man, the patient is moved to reveal her own affair, one for which she bought a house, its existence unknown to her family and she gives the nurse the keys so she has a place for her clandestine rendezvous. The novel describes both romances, following them to their tragic ends. By the author of No Night Is Too Long."@en
  • "A compelling mystery where Barbara Vine again demonstrates her mastery of character and narrative."@en
  • "One of the most consistently compelling writers in contemporary fiction is back with a wise and unsettling tale of the power and the poison of love. "It's crazy thinking I can tell her," says Genevieve Warner, thirty-two years old, thirteen years into a loveless marriage, and recently swept into her first passionate love affair. "She's so old. She'll have forgotten what sex is." But Stella Newland, the gracious, dignified, dying woman who Genevieve cares for in an English nursing home, has not forgotten. She knows all about love: its promises, its betrayals, its sometimes deadly consequences. She learned her lessons thirty years ago in a country house she owned, and owns still. When Genevieve confides in Stella, the old woman reciprocates by giving Genevieve the key to the now forlorn house, and by telling this young woman who will be her last friend, in the few minutes a day her failing strength allows, the story of her own erotic entanglement in adultery and worse, much worse."
  • "Stella Newland, the gracious, dignified, dying woman in the nursing home, gives the key to her country house to Genevieve and tells her, in the few minutes a day her failing strength allows, the story of her own erotic entanglement in adultery and worse, much worse."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Thrillers"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Adventure stories"@en

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  • "Třinácté výročí"
  • "The Brimstone wedding"
  • "Bodas de fogo"
  • "The brimstone wedding"@en
  • "The brimstone wedding"
  • "Schwefelhochzeit : Roman"
  • "The Brimstone Wedding"@en
  • "The Brimstone Wedding"
  • "Godišnjica"
  • "Bodas de azufre"@es
  • "Bodas de azufre"
  • "Schwefelhochzeit"
  • "Babara Vine Omnibus: No Night is too Long/ The Brimstone Wedding"
  • "Brimstone wedding"
  • "Brimstone wedding"@en

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