Tigerlily's orchids : a novel

Rendell, Ruth 1930-2015 (Author).

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ISBN: 1439150397
ISBN: 9781439150399
ISBN: 1439150346
ISBN: 9781439150344
Physical Description: 257 pages ; 24 cm
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Edition: First Scribner Hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2011.
Copyright: ©2011

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Overview: Is it dangerous to know too much about your neighbors? In Tigerlily's Orchids, Diamond Dagger Award-winning Ruth Rendell has written psychologically thrilling novel about the eccentric inhabitants of a London terrace-about the secrets they keep, and what they will do to hide them. When Stuart Font decides to throw a housewarming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building-three flippant young girls, a lonely spinster, a man with a passion for classical history, and a woman determined to drink herself to death. After some deliberation, he even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife. He considered inviting a few other friends, but he definitely does not want his girlfriend, Claudia, in attendance, as he would also have to invite her lawyer husband. As it turns out, the party will be one everyone remembers. Living in a townhouse opposite Stuart's building, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman known as Tigerlily. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges infrequently to exert a terrible spell. And Stuart's parents, always worried about their handsome, hopelessly naive, and under motivated son, have even more cause for concern.