Portobello : a novel / Ruth Rendell.
By: Rendell, Ruth.
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BookPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2010Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.Description: 290 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781439148518; 1439148511; 9781439150405 (pbk.); 1439150400 (pbk.).Subject(s): Secrecy -- Fiction | Middle-aged men -- England -- London -- Fiction | West End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- Fiction | Notting Hill (London, England) -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Suspense fiction.DDC classification: 823/.914 Summary: Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren's life--and the life of his trusting fiancě--the consequences will change them all.
Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren's life--and the life of his trusting fiancě--the consequences will change them all.
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