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The book that began Ian Rankin's phenomenal career.
From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES
'The themes that would come to dominate the Rebus books are already here ...
the blurred boundaries between good and evil; the pull of superstition and
myth; the difficulties in escaping and resolving one's past; the emotional
complexities of the male of the species; and, not least, a good mystery' TIME
OUT
Mary Miller had always been an outcast. Burnt in a chemical mix as a young
girl, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died
in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a
mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community.
Now, years later, she is a single mother, caught up in a faltering affair with
a local teacher. Her son, Sandy, has fallen in love with a strange homeless
girl. The search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son must face a
dark secret from their past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas
are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols
and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the
flood.
From the No.1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES
'The themes that would come to dominate the Rebus books are already here ...
the blurred boundaries between good and evil; the pull of superstition and
myth; the difficulties in escaping and resolving one's past; the emotional
complexities of the male of the species; and, not least, a good mystery' TIME
OUT
Mary Miller had always been an outcast. Burnt in a chemical mix as a young
girl, sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died
in a mining accident just two days later. From then on she was regarded with a
mixture of suspicion and fascination by her God-fearing community.
Now, years later, she is a single mother, caught up in a faltering affair with
a local teacher. Her son, Sandy, has fallen in love with a strange homeless
girl. The search for happiness isn't easy. Both mother and son must face a
dark secret from their past, in the growing knowledge that their small dramas
are being played out against a much larger canvas, glimpsed only in symbols
and flickering images - of decay and regrowth, of fire and water - of the
flood.
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