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Original Title:	The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
ISBN:	1416531939 (ISBN13: 9781416531937)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gerald Candless, Ursula Candless, Sarah Candless, Hope Candless, Jason Thague, Sam Fleming, Adam Foley
Setting:	Devon, England(United Kingdom) London, England(United Kingdom)

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy Paperback | Pages: 344 pages

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Title	:	The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
Author	:	Barbara Vine
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	April 25th 2006 by Washington Square Press (first published March 26th 1998)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. European Literature. British Literature

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Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspense of the highest order. With this richly textured and utterly absorbing page-tumer, Vine adds to her growing reputation as one of the great writers of our time.
Bestselling and critically acclaimed novelist Gerald Candless dies suddenly, and leaves behind a wife and two doting daughters. To sort through her grief, his daughter Sarah puts aside her university studies and agrees to write a biography of her famous father. But as she begins her research and pulls back the veil of his past, her life is slowly torn apart: a terrible logic begins to unfold that explains her mother's remoteness, her father's need to continually reinvent himself -- and sheds shocking light on a long-forgotten London murder.

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By the strength of writing alone, awesome. By the frustration of characters and over delivered message, not quite. I'm such a fan of Ruth Rendell's work, but under the Barbara Vine pseudonym the stories are often less enchanting, albeit it just as strongly written. And with this story of a family who discovers a long buried secret about its patriarch, the characters ended up ultimately too frustrating and unlikeable, enough to distract from the enjoyment of the book. Rendell under her own name

When respected novelist Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack he leaves behind two stricken daughters and a neglected wife who is finally free to live her own life.Candlesss narcissistic self-absorption and obsessive devotion to his daughters have left Ursula, his wife, puzzled and, eventually, estranged. Hope, the younger daughter, is shattered. But Sarah, the elder, decides to take on his publishers request and write a biography of her father.Her research soon uncovers shocking

This is another of the Vines that I seem drawn to re-read every three years or so, and it never disappoints, though I do have one reservation about it.As is usually the case with Vine, the past casts its shadow down the years - What was Gerald Candless's connection to a London murder that he later fictionalized in one of his novels? Why did he completely turn his back on his family of origin?It's the story of a man who completely reinvents himself because he has a secret. Of course, no one knows

Like an Iris Murdoch mystery. Gerald Candless, who is mostly dead for the bulk of the book, but around whom the plot revolves, is a prolific and respected author who writes books with titles like "Purple of Cassius" and "A White Webfoot." About half-way through I identified him as a mind-70s Murdochian sort of author. Then I realized all his awful family were Murdoch-styled characters. I wonder if it was homage, critique, or coincidence.I was really fascinated at the beginning of the book, and

Barbara Vine is Ruth Rendell's pseudonym for her more... literary? psychological?... mysteries. The Chimney Sweeper's Boy is about the very unattractive character of Gerald Candless, a novelist, who is devoted to his daughters and ignores his wife. When he dies suddenly, one of his daughters is commissioned to write a book about her father and suddenly realises what little she knows about her father's past.Vine makes unattractive people into really absorbing characters, whom you care about

I don't consider myself as a big fan of contemporary novels regardless their genre. However, I started reading the Chimney Sweeper's Boy after reading some reviews and after reading a good short story by Ruth Randall. It starts very well and it was gripping and hard to put down. But that was not enough for me. I didn't like any of the characters and all my feelings towards them were quite negative. Even Ursula who seemed to suffer an oppression and verbal abuse seemed very passive. After

A cruel and sadistic husband (but loving father) had a secret life and hidden identity, which is uncovered when his daughter is commissioned to write a memoir. 100 of the 440 pages could have been edited out with no loss to plot or character.