I Start Counting
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
A teenage girl's fierce devotion to her adoptive brother becomes the darkest kind of obsession in Audrey Erskine Lindop's psychological thriller I Start Counting. Set against the backdrop of a community gripped by fear, fourteen-year-old Wynne harbours a secret, all-consuming love for her older brother George — but when a serial killer begins terrorising the neighbourhood and suspicion begins to fall uncomfortably close to home, Wynne's loyalty is pushed to its most terrifying limits. With mounting dread and a sharp eye for the self-deceptions of adolescence, Lindop constructs a masterful portrait of innocence colliding with evil. Lindop's prose is precise and psychologically astute, chronicling the inner world of a young narrator whose unreliable perspective keeps the reader perpetually off-balance, never quite certain where truth ends and desperate fantasy begins. Published in 1966, I Start Counting stands as one of the most underappreciated British suspense novels of its era, drawing comparisons to the work of Mary Warnock and Ruth Rendell in its unflinching examination of family, guilt, and the moral complexities of love. Later adapted into a film, the novel retains a haunting power that lingers long after the final page — a reminder that the most dangerous secrets are often the ones we keep to protect ourselves.
Author: Audrey Erskine Lindop
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Collins
Genre: Thriller
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
A teenage girl's fierce devotion to her adoptive brother becomes the darkest kind of obsession in Audrey Erskine Lindop's psychological thriller I Start Counting. Set against the backdrop of a community gripped by fear, fourteen-year-old Wynne harbours a secret, all-consuming love for her older brother George — but when a serial killer begins terrorising the neighbourhood and suspicion begins to fall uncomfortably close to home, Wynne's loyalty is pushed to its most terrifying limits. With mounting dread and a sharp eye for the self-deceptions of adolescence, Lindop constructs a masterful portrait of innocence colliding with evil. Lindop's prose is precise and psychologically astute, chronicling the inner world of a young narrator whose unreliable perspective keeps the reader perpetually off-balance, never quite certain where truth ends and desperate fantasy begins. Published in 1966, I Start Counting stands as one of the most underappreciated British suspense novels of its era, drawing comparisons to the work of Mary Warnock and Ruth Rendell in its unflinching examination of family, guilt, and the moral complexities of love. Later adapted into a film, the novel retains a haunting power that lingers long after the final page — a reminder that the most dangerous secrets are often the ones we keep to protect ourselves.