King Solomon's Carpet [Paperback]

Barbara Vine (Author)

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Penguin Canada (Jun 23 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0141040432
ISBN-13: 978-0141040431
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 240 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #730,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'The most brilliant novelist writiing in English today' Daily Telegraph 'The tension grows... an overwhelming sense of foreboding... when the unravelling takes place, it is brilliantly unexpected and original' The Times 'I longed to know what would happen next. Towards the end the tension fairly gets you by the throat' Sunday Express

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Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line, compiling his obsessive, secret history of London's Underground. His presence and his strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who gets his kicks on the tube; and mysterious Axel, whose dark secret later casts a shadow over all of their lives. Dispossessed and outcast, those who come to inhabit Jarvis' schoolhouse are gradually brought closer together in violent and unforeseen ways by London's forbidding and dangerous Underground.

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