Tigerlily's Orchids: a psychologically twisted version of a modern urban fairytale from the award-winning...

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Ruth Rendell

Tigerlily's Orchids

a psychologically twisted version of a modern urban fairytale from the award-winning Queen of...

Ruth Rendell

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Arrow
01 August 2011

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery

A psychologically twisted version of a modern urban fairytale, from the world's greatest living crime writer and author of mystery thrillers, including Thirteen Steps Down.

From multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell, this is a darkly humorous and piercing observation of human behaviour.

Fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will love this compelling fable of our lives and our crimes...

'Rendell's greatest trick is making an unforeseen outcome feel predestined' -- Financial Times 'Throroughly gripping . . . As always with Rendell, it's the exquisite human and social minutiae that count' -- The Times 'Rendell does it again!' --
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* When Stuart Font decides to throw a house-warming party in his new flat, he invites all the people in his building and, after some deliberation, even includes the unpleasant caretaker and his wife.

Although there are some genuine friends on the list, they are a disparate group of people and he definitely does not want to include his girlfriend, Claudia, as that might involve asking her husband.

The party will be one everyone remembers. But not for the right reasons.

Living opposite, in reclusive isolation, is a beautiful young Asian woman, christened Tigerlily by Stuart. As though from some strange urban fairytale, she emerges to exert a terrible spell on Stuart and his guests...

By: Ruth Rendell
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780099550631
ISBN 10: 0099550636
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for 1976's best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, 'The New Girl Friend'; and a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary award, as well as the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Reviews for Tigerlily's Orchids: a psychologically twisted version of a modern urban fairytale from the award-winning Queen of Crime, Ruth Rendell

The sins and self-deprecations of the inhabitants of a mansion block in north-west London are skewered with great skill in a novel that incorporates adultery, dipsomania, theft, paedophilia, drugs and, inevitably, murder. A clever whodunit most notable for its naked misanthropy * Evening Standard * Ruth Rendell keeps up an amazingly high standard . . . utterly gripping -- A.N. Wilson Once her characters start twisting on ever-tightening tracks, their fates are brilliantly sealed, and it's never obvious who'll be the victim or the culprit. Rendell's greatest trick is making an unforeseen outcome feel predestined * Financial Times * Throroughly gripping . . . As always with Rendell, it's the exquisite human and social minutiae that count * The Times * Ruth Rendell has few rivals as a chronicler of everyday life * Sunday Times *