Portobello
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Author: Ruth Rendell
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, noisy, with graffiti that approaches art. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. He has decided to move to a more up market site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene is fifty, with prematurely white hair. He is, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also has an addictive personality. Despite this he has cut back radically on his alcohol consumption and has given up cigarettes. Just as well, considering he is dating a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there is something he does not want her to know about On a shopping trip one day, Eugene, quite by chance, came across an envelope containing money. For some reason, rather than report the matter to the police, he wrote a note and stuck it up on lamp post near his house- 'Found in Chepstow Villas, a sum of money between eighty and a hundred and sixty pounds. Anyone who has lost such a sum should apply to the phone number below.' This note would link the lives of a nu
Author: Ruth Rendell
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, noisy, with graffiti that approaches art. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. He has decided to move to a more up market site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene is fifty, with prematurely white hair. He is, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also has an addictive personality. Despite this he has cut back radically on his alcohol consumption and has given up cigarettes. Just as well, considering he is dating a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there is something he does not want her to know about On a shopping trip one day, Eugene, quite by chance, came across an envelope containing money. For some reason, rather than report the matter to the police, he wrote a note and stuck it up on lamp post near his house- 'Found in Chepstow Villas, a sum of money between eighty and a hundred and sixty pounds. Anyone who has lost such a sum should apply to the phone number below.' This note would link the lives of a nu
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only.
Author: Ruth Rendell
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, noisy, with graffiti that approaches art. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. He has decided to move to a more up market site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene is fifty, with prematurely white hair. He is, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also has an addictive personality. Despite this he has cut back radically on his alcohol consumption and has given up cigarettes. Just as well, considering he is dating a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there is something he does not want her to know about On a shopping trip one day, Eugene, quite by chance, came across an envelope containing money. For some reason, rather than report the matter to the police, he wrote a note and stuck it up on lamp post near his house- 'Found in Chepstow Villas, a sum of money between eighty and a hundred and sixty pounds. Anyone who has lost such a sum should apply to the phone number below.' This note would link the lives of a nu
Author: Ruth Rendell
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality - vibrant, noisy, with graffiti that approaches art. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. He has decided to move to a more up market site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene is fifty, with prematurely white hair. He is, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also has an addictive personality. Despite this he has cut back radically on his alcohol consumption and has given up cigarettes. Just as well, considering he is dating a doctor. For all his good intentions, though, there is something he does not want her to know about On a shopping trip one day, Eugene, quite by chance, came across an envelope containing money. For some reason, rather than report the matter to the police, he wrote a note and stuck it up on lamp post near his house- 'Found in Chepstow Villas, a sum of money between eighty and a hundred and sixty pounds. Anyone who has lost such a sum should apply to the phone number below.' This note would link the lives of a nu
Portobello