Evil Seed

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Joanne Harris: Evil Seed (2008, Transworld Publishers Limited)

448 pages

English language

Published 2008 by Transworld Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-552-77504-5
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The revised and updated reissue of Joanne Harris's first novel, an absorbing, dark, chilling story.Something inside me remembers and will not forget...When Alice Farrell is drawn to Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley's gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed.And when former boyfriend Joe returns to Cambridge with his new girlfriend Ginny, Alice is repelled by the ethereal, lavender-eyed beauty - and is certain of her evil.Then Alice finds an old diary in Ginny's room and reads the story of Daniel Holmes, who lived in Cambridge forty years earlier, and fell under the fatal spell of Rosemary Ashley. As the two stories intertwine, Alice's suspicions about Ginny increase - until the past meets present in a terrifying climax...

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Subjects

  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • England, fiction