by SarahDiamond (Author)
To the casual eye, teenagers Jane and Beverley are opposites. Wealthy, beautiful and clever, Beverley seems to have everything while disturbed and lonely Jane has just seen her mother die in appalling circumstances, and has come to live with her grandparents in the same small town as Beverley - by the sea in Underlyme, Dorset. But Beverley's life isn't so perfect after all. Behind the glossy facade, it's anything but. And when something terrible happens to her on holiday, she comes home to find there's nobody left to turn to - except Jane herself. Initially, Beverley finds solace in Jane's total adoration. But gradually she begins to realise there is something different, something dark about Jane. Little does she know just how different, just how dark ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New
Publisher: Orion
Published: 05 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 075284329X
ISBN 13: 9780752843292
Book Overview: A terrific debut novel in the bestselling vein of Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell Sarah Diamond is a highly promotable young author Her second novel, Cold Town, is to be published in Orion in August 2001 'Beautifully plotted and written ... I much admire Diamond's debut. Fans of Rendell, Walters, Martin or Fyfield won't want to miss either the novel or its portrait of modern Britain from an unusual perspective' The Poisoned Pen 'A chilling first novel' Daily Express