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Innocent Blood

Innocent Blood

by Baroness P . D . James (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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    Paperback 1987

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Synopsis

At 18, Philippa Palfrey, the confident adopted daughter of a celebrated academic, exercises her right to learn the names of her real parents. What she discovers is a terrible secret that will change her life forever.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0571204554
ISBN 13: 9780571204557

Media Reviews
Immensely readable, bright...P.D. James is capable of handling her themes with astonishing clarity: not to simplify things for us, but to give us the crisp honesty of her novelistic perceptions. -- The New York Times Book Review Subtle, rich, allusive, and positively Shakespearean. -- The New York Times A superbly crafted psychological story of a search for identity, revenge and redemption. -- Toronto Star As suspenseful and tautly written as any of her detective stories -- the psychological twists and turns will tantalize the reader as cunningly as a well-paced clue. -- The New York Times P.D. James steps into territory occupied by Truman Capote, Shelby Foote, Carson McCullers, even Henry James. -- The New Republic A superior thriller--tingling with suspense, difficult to put down. -- Newsday A transfixing psychological thriller filled with searing suspense, a multi-twist plot and a remorseless eye for our sometimes monstrous needs and drives -- It packs a powerful wallop. -- Mademoiselle
Author Bio
P. D. James was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of the Arts and has served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of its Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She has won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors.