Painting Ruby Tuesday is a blackly comic, evocative, and charming novel set against the soundtrack of the sixties. It is about a ten-year-old girl who sabotages a murder enquiry, and the effects of the event that she must deal with as an adult.
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A ten-year-old girl sabotages a murder enquiry in this blackly comic novel set against the soundtrack of the Sixties.
It is 1965. Annie Cradock is a highly imaginative, precocious only daughter of strict parents in an Essex village. There have been several murders in her village, and when Annie is an inadvertent witness to a horrendous crime she is terrified and tries to put the police off the scent -- with devastating consequences.
Thirty-five years later Annie, a trained musician and teacher, is frustrated in her marriage, having an affair, and has never been quite able to escape her past. Only when she discovers a photograph album in a Manhattan bookshop can she begin to put her ghosts to rest.
The novel is populated with wonderful, vivid characters including the glamorous, piano-playing Mrs. Clitheroe who was Annie?s childhood friend Babette; Ollie the rag-and-bone man; her exciting artist lover plus her American husband Alan, who is far more comfortable with facts than emotions. The most memorable of all is Annie herself -- a bright, funny girl who lives very much in her own head.
It is 1965. Annie Cradock is a highly imaginative, precocious only daughter of strict parents in an Essex village. There have been several murders in her village, and when Annie is an inadvertent witness to a horrendous crime she is terrified and tries to put the police off the scent -- with devastating consequences.
Thirty-five years later Annie, a trained musician and teacher, is frustrated in her marriage, having an affair, and has never been quite able to escape her past. Only when she discovers a photograph album in a Manhattan bookshop can she begin to put her ghosts to rest.
The novel is populated with wonderful, vivid characters including the glamorous, piano-playing Mrs. Clitheroe who was Annie?s childhood friend Babette; Ollie the rag-and-bone man; her exciting artist lover plus her American husband Alan, who is far more comfortable with facts than emotions. The most memorable of all is Annie herself -- a bright, funny girl who lives very much in her own head.
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It is 1965. Annie Cradock is a highly imaginative, precocious only daughter of strict parents in an Essex village, always getting herself into scrapes with her best friend and neighbour, Babette. There have already been several murders in the village, and when Annie is an inadvertent witness to a horrendous crime she is terrified, and tries to put the police off the scent, with devastating consequences. In the present day, thirty-five years on, Annie, a trained musician and teacher, is frustrated in her marriage, having an affair and has never quite been able to escape her past. Only when she discovers a photograph album in a Manhattan bookshop, that captures so many of her memories, can she begin to put the past behind her and lay those ghosts to rest. The novel is populated with some wonderful, vivid characters including the glamorous, piano-playing Mrs Clitheroe, her childhood friend Babette, who has a far more sensible head on her shoulders, Ollie the rag-and-bone man, her exciting, artist lover plus her American husband Alan, who is far more comfortable with facts than emotions. The most memorable of all is Annie herself - a bright, funny girl who lives very much in her own head.
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