- Hardcover: 253 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby; First Edition edition (23 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749005750
- ISBN-13: 978-0749005757
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.4 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,482,351 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Ruth Rendell can retire secure in knowing she's passed the torch" Kirkus Review "A minor masterpiece" The Times"
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Kate Carr is a lucky teenager. Although her mother has left, she is far from neglected at home. The girls at school envy her because her father is such a charmer, the most mesmerising minister in Edinburgh. The clever new girl Lydia envies her most of all. Sometimes Kate wonders what it would be like to have a mother like Lydia's, or even a doting grandmother like stupid Moira's, but she knows what she has is better. She is special; she is Keith Carr's 'first fruit', his offering. He is training her up in his image, to have It - his special power, the ability to manipulate people. She practices what he's taught her with devastating effect. Soon both Kate and the reader will find themselves drawn into a complex web of religion, seduction, memory, and desire that will move them inexorably into the past.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
We took this on holiday with us. I think my other half finished it in a day! It is gripping because the secrets are revealed slowly through the story. You can't put it down because you want to know what is going on!
It is moody, dark and very very creepy.
Enjoy it ... but not too late at night ... :)
It is moody, dark and very very creepy.
Enjoy it ... but not too late at night ... :)
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved the book and can't wait for the film. On one level this a story of the everyday horrors of being an adolescent girl. Friendships, looks, brains, and then small but deceitful and manipulative small cruelties that girls inflict on each other are examined in such a way that it's hard not to remember the agony of being fourteen. Yet, there is a nagging suspicion something deeper is going on. When it comes it's a shock but why so unexpected? I challenge you to predict the end even at the last chapter. Just as good as her "Last Girl" which can't be beaten.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I just finished reading `FRIST FRUITS' by Penelope Evans and I think that I must have been reading a completely different book that most of the other reviewers. While I did enjoy this book it was certainly not what I would describe as bone chilling. Slightly disturbing maybe, sad definitely, but bone chilling absolutely not, nor did I find fourteen year old Kate Carr to be remotely evil. Quite the opposite in fact; I believe that Kate is an average teenager who thinks the world of her extremely egotistical and very much disturbed father. Keith Carr is Kate's fanatically religious father who preaches one thing but practices something completely different, and unfortunately Kate believes everything he has taught her and is left to deal with what happens as all her beliefs are slowly stripped away from her.
I really don't want to give too much of this book away, but it is almost impossible to write a proper review without doing so. However, I will say that although this book is primarily about Kate what disturbed me the most were the actions of her father who always believed that there was a "lesson" to be taught and his very unorthodox methods of teaching them. If in purchasing this book you are expecting a book frightening enough to keep you up at night this is not it. But if you are looking for something that explores the psychological effects that growing up in a household such as Kate's has on an adolescent girl this is the book for you.
I really don't want to give too much of this book away, but it is almost impossible to write a proper review without doing so. However, I will say that although this book is primarily about Kate what disturbed me the most were the actions of her father who always believed that there was a "lesson" to be taught and his very unorthodox methods of teaching them. If in purchasing this book you are expecting a book frightening enough to keep you up at night this is not it. But if you are looking for something that explores the psychological effects that growing up in a household such as Kate's has on an adolescent girl this is the book for you.
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