- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; First Edition First Impression / edition (8 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747221405
- ISBN-13: 978-0747221401
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 16.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,828,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Young, independent and all too aware of her human frailty, Sister Agnes finds her strength tested when she is seconded to Silworth, a women's prison in Southwark. When bitterness erupts into murder, she realizes she too has become entangled in a dark world stretching further than the prison walls.
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Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Sister Agnes is working at a women's prison when the father of one of the inmates is murdered. What at first seems a straightforward potentially drugs related crime, gradually takes on more and more dimensions as Agnes tries to find out whether Cally's boyfriend Mal is really the murderer as the police seem to think. Agnes has problems of her own to deal with as her mother is seriously ill in France. She finds the ramifications of other people's relationships start to reflect her own problems and she is forced to deal with some long buried issues. The plot is complicated and fast paced and keeps the reader guessing right up until the dramatic conclusion. Even the minor characters are interesting - Rosanna the jazz singer, Cally and Claire - twins who have chosen different roads in life, the ex Welsh miners who are digging new tunnels for the London Underground and Venn the owner of the Pomegranate Seed club. Very little on stage violence and Sister Agnes' battles with obedience to her Order make this a gripping novel.
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I have enjoyed all of the 'Sr Agnes' books but this is one of the best. It is set in the claustrophobic, powder-keg atmosphere of a women's prison. The recurring theme is the threads that make up the stories of our lives and the 'prisons' these create for us. As her mother begins to slip away first in mind, then in body Agnes is tormented by her unhappy childhood and by secrets that begin to emerge from her mother's past life. In trying to avoid these conflicts, she becomes over-involved with the sufferings of the inmates and of one of her fellow sisters. Each character appears trapped in some way, by old sins or mistakes. It is a deeply involving read, more than a murder mystery. Brilliant.
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