342 pages
English language
Published Feb. 27, 1998 by Viking.
The chimney sweeper's boy
by Ruth Rendell
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When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That, in fact, he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And what terrible secret had driven him to live a lie for all those years?
Subjects
- Adult children of dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Problem families -- Fiction
- Biographers -- Fiction
- Authors -- Fiction
- England -- Fiction