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The evil seedThe evil seed

The evil seed

Joanne Harris

About this book

The revised and updated reissue of Joanne Harris's first novel, an absorbing, dark, chilling story.Something inside me remembers and will not forget...When Alice Farrell is drawn to Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley's gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed.And when former boyfriend Joe returns to Cambridge with his new girlfriend Ginny, Alice is repelled by the ethereal, lavender-eyed beauty - and is certain of her evil.Then Alice finds an old diary in Ginny's room and reads the story of Daniel Holmes, who lived in Cambridge forty years earlier, and fell under the fatal spell of Rosemary Ashley. As the two stories intertwine, Alice's suspicions about Ginny increase - until the past meets present in a terrifying climax...

Details

Publisher
Garzanti
Pages
340
ISBN-13
9788811670254
OL Work ID
OL11659464W

Subjects

FictionLiteratureFiction, mystery & detective, generalEngland, fiction

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