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The Private Wound

Nicholas Blake

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#5013 of 8,085 books · #1664 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (1968).

In the West of Ireland in 1939 a young novelist rents a lonely cottage to write his new book in peace. Almost at once, and without great resistance, he is seduced by the wife of the local squire. Harriet's husband is an older man - hot-tempered, impoverished, gone to seed - who once fought famously against the Black and Tans. Soon this eternal triangle becomes a local scandal, and the atmosphere of threat and violence, intensified by the approaching war in Europe, leads to a horrific murder.

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Publisher
A&C Black
ISBN-13
9781448210442
Topics
Adultery and scandalMurderIreland on the brink of war

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