The Brimstone Wedding

by Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell

Overview

Both a finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness, The Brimstone Wedding tells an unsettling story about the power and the poison of love. A gracious, dignified woman, who's dying in an English nursing home, reveals the secrets of her erotic past to her young caretaker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307801135
Publisher:	Crown Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/14/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	330
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Barbara Vine is the author of such acclaimed novels as A Dark-Adapted Eye, Anna's Book, Grasshopper, and The Blood Doctor. She has won many awards for literary accomplishment, including three Edgar Awards and four Gold Daggers.

What People are Saying About This

Marilyn Stasil

"Dark, hipnotic, romantic obsession...written in a whisper."

Editorial Reviews

Vine's latest is certain to inspire such glowing superlatives as "brilliant," "mesmerizing," "evocative," "masterful," and "stunning," and readers are sure to be captivated by her story about two women, 70-year-old Stella Newland and 30-year-old Genevieve Warren, whose tragic love affairs intertwine and mirror each other. Stella lives at Middleton Hall, a home for well-heeled old folks, where Genevieve is a daily caregiver. Cancer-ridden but still spry, Stella loves hearing about Genevieve's life, which is so very different from Stella's own structured, straitlaced existence. Village-born and raised, Genevieve has lived a peaceful if monotonous life, married her grade-school sweetheart, and settled down to a boring, loveless marriage. Then she meets Ned, a successful television writer, and falls passionately in love. Unable to keep her happiness hidden, she confesses the affair to Stella. But Stella knows the tragic consequences of love--and as the cancer eats away at her body, she becomes determined to share her own shocking story with Genevieve before it's too late. Universal in theme and appeal, "Brimstone" is a storytelling tour de force from one of today's most provocative and intelligent writers.

Emily Melton