Let's Dance: A Novel

by Frances Fyfield

Overview

When Isabel Burley returns home to care for her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, she finds a bemused, angry old woman, prey to the dangers of failing memory, the inability to run her household—and the local villains who are eyeing her isolated home. But as the locals close in, Isabel finds herself struggling with her own emotions. She thinks she has come home to do some good, but is she really looking for the affection she lacked as a child? Alienated by her mother's growing eccentricity, Isabel becomes locked in a relationship of love, conflict, and simmering violence, with roots that go deep into the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062301390
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	03/04/2014
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	100
File size:	443 KB

About the Author

Frances Fyfield has spent much of her professional life practicing as a criminal lawyer, work that has informed her highly acclaimed novels. She has been the recipient of both the Gold and Silver Crime Writers' Association Daggers. She is also a regular broadcaster on Radio 4, most recently as the presenter of the series Tales from the Stave. She lives in London and in Deal, overlooking the sea, which is her passion.

Editorial Reviews

"A chilling mélange of aging, family responsibility and criminal activity--. Fascinating and frightening-- intensely sinister." -Edmonton Journal

"Gripping--. The characters are appallingly real, stripped of any veneer of 'niceness.' [Let's Dance] tests the boundaries of the mystery genre, and succeeds." -Montreal Gazette

"Fyfield's finest novel yet--. A superbly written story with characters who contain and control the action, and enough suspense to keep me reading long into the night. Let's Dance is a spellbinding study of love, neurosis and the tragedy of senility." -The Globe and Mail

"A fascinating tale of family intrigue--. Fyfield is at her best--. A thrillers go, this one is worth the read." -Ottawa Citizen

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