The Walking Stick
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
A young woman's loneliness and longing become her greatest vulnerability in Winston Graham's taut, psychologically rich novel The Walking Stick. Deborah Dainton, a partially paralysed woman who has built careful walls around her solitary life, finds those defences crumbling when she falls passionately in love with Leigh Hartley — a charming, enigmatic artist with a shadowy past. What begins as a tender and unexpected romance gradually tightens into something far more dangerous, as Deborah is drawn into a meticulously planned art heist that puts everything she holds dear at risk. Graham, best known for his sweeping Poldark saga, demonstrates here the same masterful command of character and suspense in a far more intimate register. The Walking Stick is a study in emotional manipulation and moral ambiguity, written with a cool, precise elegance that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance. The novel poses an unsettling question that lingers long after the final page: when love is used as a weapon, can its victim ever truly tell the difference between devotion and deception?
Author: Winston Graham
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, World Books
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
A young woman's loneliness and longing become her greatest vulnerability in Winston Graham's taut, psychologically rich novel The Walking Stick. Deborah Dainton, a partially paralysed woman who has built careful walls around her solitary life, finds those defences crumbling when she falls passionately in love with Leigh Hartley — a charming, enigmatic artist with a shadowy past. What begins as a tender and unexpected romance gradually tightens into something far more dangerous, as Deborah is drawn into a meticulously planned art heist that puts everything she holds dear at risk. Graham, best known for his sweeping Poldark saga, demonstrates here the same masterful command of character and suspense in a far more intimate register. The Walking Stick is a study in emotional manipulation and moral ambiguity, written with a cool, precise elegance that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance. The novel poses an unsettling question that lingers long after the final page: when love is used as a weapon, can its victim ever truly tell the difference between devotion and deception?