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This is a book that cannot be taken for granted and no reader should pass it by --Anthony Clare, Sunday Times
A natural storyteller --Times Literary Supplement
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Guy still believed that Leonora loved him, as she had when she was a young girl, when he led a street gang around London's Notting Hill Gate, a world away from her family home in a mews house in Holland Park. Leonora's mother in particular didn't care for her dark-looking boyfriend, especially when she found out about shoplifting and the drugs.
Guy's obsession with Leonora increased as the years passed, and as they grew apart. He always believed she would come back to him. But even when Leonora told him it could not be like that, that life was not a fairy tale, he could not, would not, accept the truth. And the murderous madness began to take hold of him.
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The author does no less in this well-written novel, as she leads the reader into the mind and world of Guy Curran, a handsome, young man from the slums who has led a hard scrabble life, elevating himself from the bowels of poverty by dint of his own hard work and acquiring great wealth in the process . Unfortunately for him, that hard work included some less than reputable dealings in the drug trade, which provided the capital for his now legitimate businesses.
For years, Guy has been obsessively in love with Leonora Chisholm, an upper class miss who, after years of being his reluctant childhood sweetheart, has rejected him and all the trappings of wealth and comfort he has to offer her. She prefers to live in genteel poverty with her friends, while acquiring a new boyfriend whom her family and friends like. Guy is convinced some of his past, shady dealings have come to the attention of someone in Leonora's family or inner circle. He believes that that individual has persuaded Leonora to turn away from him.
Now, who would go and do such a thing? Read this well-written book and join Guy in the process of eliminating the likely suspect in this twisted tale of obsessive love.
Well apart from having a very criminal past including drug dealing and a protection racket and a pretty dodgy present way of life, he is insanely controlling and possesive and paranoid to boot. Leonora is out of love with him and wants to be 'just friends' to keep him sweet, and out of a sense of guilt for letting such an intensive love down, she agrees to meet him every Saturday for lunch. Guy of course, is still convinced she will come back to him and that it is only because of the evil influence of a variety of friends and family that she has grown away from him. To say he is deluded is an understatement. He is something of a sociopath, of a type appearing in other Rendell works.
His simmering paranoia and resentment is tipped over into near madness when he finds out that Leonora is planning to marry and the groom is not going to be him. Light the blue touch paper!!!
The London background is very well observed and detailed and Guy's control freakery believable. I wanted to kick Leonora in the bottom quite often, for not getting rid of this creep early on, but if not the best classic Rendell it is fairly compulsive if somewhat unpleasant reading
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