Ruth Rendell. (2007). The Water's Lovely. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Ruth Rendell. 2007. The Water's Lovely. Books on Tape.

Ruth Rendell, The Water's Lovely. Books on Tape, 2007.

Ruth Rendell. The Water's Lovely. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2007.

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   • bioText: Ruth Rendell is the author of Road Rage, The Keys to the Street, Bloodlines, Simisola, and The Crocodile Bird. She is the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award. She is also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Rendell also writes mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark-Adapted Eye is the most famous. She lives in England.
     
     Rosalyn Landor is an English-born television, theater, and multiple-award-winning audiobook narrator. Her television credits include Love in a Cold Climate, Rumpole of the Bailey, Sherlock Holmes, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. She has won numerous Audie awards and AudioFile magazine Earphones awards.
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When Ismay thinks of that terrible day, and she often does, she remembers Heather coming down the stairs–her dress wet, her face as still and white as a porcelain mask. Sometimes the memories return in a dream: climbing the stairs, following her dripping-wet sister to the upstairs bathroom–but when Heather opens the door they are standing in a marble chamber on the edge of a glassy lake. Ismay watches as a white thing floats toward them, its face submerged. She looks into the water and sees her stepfather Guy’s face, his lifeless, frightened eyes, staring up at her.
Now, nine years after Guy was found dead in the bathtub, she and Heather still live in their childhood home, and to this day the two sisters never talk about what happened. Although Ismay finds herself feeling intensely protective of her little sister and of the secret they share, their lives move placidly, even happily, forward. It seems as if the mysterious death of their stepfather is behind them. But when Heather becomes seriously involved with a man for the first time, Ismay’s long-repressed memories can no longer be ignored. With painful inevitability, the surprising truth will emerge whether Ismay wants it to or not.

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1. • premium: False
   • source: Sunday Telegraph
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     "She is one of the marvels of crime fiction. Forty years after her first book, Ruth Rendell is still producing work that puts her head and shoulders above most other writers."

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   • source: Daily Mail
   • content: "Ruth Rendell is back to her creepy best. She has always been wonderful at exploring the dark corners of the human mind, and the way private fantasies can clash and explode into terrifying
     violence."
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   • source: Guardian
   • content: "No contemporary writer of suspense stories tries to vary the form's boundaries more than Ruth Rendell."
4. • premium: False
   • source: The Times
   • content: "Rendell's eerie capacity to comprehend disturbed criminal minds continues to astonish."
5. • premium: False
   • source: Associated Press
   • content: "A haunting, taut and perfectly woven mystery that can easily be devoured in a single sitting."
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   • source: New York Times
   • content: "A deft, sneaky and complicated book, a novel rish with parallels and shadows. . . . [Rendell] draws her characters with an insightful yet light touch. . . . The main mystery presented by The Water's Lovely is how an author so relentlessly prolific . . . can do such buoyant, impeccable work. . . . [TWL] is one of her most gleefully energetic efforts. And its powers of description and characterization place it far beyond the limits of a genre novel. This book is less a conventional crime story than a sly social comedy in which not everybody dies of natural causes."
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   • source: Entertainment Weekly
   • content: "The Water's Lovely is one of Rendell's most virtuosic [stand-alone novels], shifting seamlessly from tart Barbara Pym-style social comedy to black comedy, to gothic horror, to romance, then back again. . . . As in all her work, this novel is grounded in spot-on, grave observations of human nature. Rendell writes marvelously here....A-, EW Pick"
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   • source: San Diego Union-Tribune
   • content: "Ruth Rendell, Britain's best, offers up another well-crafted tale of psychological suspense."
9. • premium: False
   • source: New York Magazine
   • content: "[Rendell's] writerly decorum masks a darkness and horror that Agatha Christie never touched."
10. • premium: False
    • source: O Magazine
    • content: "The creepiest thing in Ruth Rendell's latest mystery, The Water's Lovely, isn't the murder . . . but the deep chill that can pervade human interactions."
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    • source: People
    • content: "Chills from a master."
12. • premium: False
    • source: New York Times Book Review
    • content: "The queen of the psychological suspense novel. . . .This [is a] subtly horrifying story."
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    • source: Washington Post Book World
    • content: "Rendell is in absolute top form here. The Water's Lovely is as suspenseful as any crime novel she has written, but it also has the generous humanity of her best Inspector Wexford cases. . . . Rendell provides the reader with many pleasures: her intelligence and humanity, her sculpted sentences, her jokeless wit. . . . What a sneaky mind the woman has."
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    • content: Sisters Ismay and Heather's stepfather is found drowned in the bathtub. Ismay believes her 13-year-old sister killed him, but the coroner rules out unnatural causes. Years later, the sisters share the house--now two flats --with their schizophrenic mother and her caregiver sister. Rosalyn Landor narrates, offering listeners perfect vocal portraits of Ismay and Heather, the men in their lives, their mothers and their aunts. Landor's voice is rich and creamy, an excellent fit for Ruth Rendell's subtlety and wry humor. Fragile sanity, romance, ulterior motives, menace, manipulation, and murder highlight Rendell's latest psychological Chinese box. More than a suspense or mystery story, Rendell's novel offers deep insights into people, and Landor's spot-on performance explores the corrosive effects of secrets, delusion, and guilt. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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      Starred review from May 14, 2007
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      hree-time Edgar Award–winner Rendell (13 Steps Down
      ) often creates fragile characters, trembling on the edge of losing a lover, child, job, solvency or sanity. Slashing through their world is a “wild card,” an obsessive or a sociopath too focused on personal gain to be concerned with damage to others. The vulnerable people at the heart of this taut and enticing stand-alone are the Sealand family, particularly Heather, who's assumed to have drowned her unsavory stepfather, Guy, in the bath while he was weak with illness. A veritable pack of wild cards—including Marion Melville, who cozies up to the lonely and aged in hopes of inheriting their estates after she's poisoned them, and Marion's Dumpster-diving brother, Fowler—keeps everyone off guard. Rendell enlivens the tale with subplots involving various romances—ardent and desperate—and a killer who lurks in London's parks, as well as with pithy comments about class, technology, generational conflict, food and aesthetics. The plot twists in this electrifying read reach all the way to the last page.

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When Ismay thinks of that terrible day, and she often does, she remembers Heather coming down the stairs–her dress wet, her face as still and white as a porcelain mask. Sometimes the memories return in a dream: climbing the stairs, following her dripping-wet sister to the upstairs bathroom–but when Heather opens the door they are standing in a marble chamber on the edge of a glassy lake. Ismay watches as a white thing floats toward them, its face submerged. She looks into the water and sees her stepfather Guy’s face, his lifeless, frightened eyes, staring up at her.
Now, nine years after Guy was found dead in the bathtub, she and Heather still live in their childhood home, and to this day the two sisters never talk about what happened. Although Ismay finds herself feeling intensely protective of her little sister and of the secret they share, their lives move placidly, even happily, forward. It seems as if the mysterious death of their stepfather is behind...

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1. • source: Mystery Writers of America
   • value: Grand Master Award
2. • source: Crime Writers’ Association
   • value: Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement Award

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