The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (1998) is a crime/mystery novel by Barbara Vine, pseudonym of British author Ruth Rendell.[1]

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
First edition (UK)
AuthorBarbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime / Mystery novel
PublisherViking (UK)
Harmony (US)
Publication date
26 March 1998
Media typePrint/Audiobook
Pages352 (hardback)
ISBN0-670-87927-4
OCLC40980304
823/.914 21
LC ClassPR6068.E63 C47 1998c
Preceded byThe Brimstone Wedding 
Followed byGrasshopper 

Plot summary

When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest daughter Sarah is approached by her father's publisher with a view to writing a biography about his life. Sarah embarks on the memoir but soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be, and that in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at all.

Candless's neglected wife Ursula gradually regains her self-confidence and begins a new relationship as she realises that the unhappiness of her marriage was due, not to her own shortcomings, but to her husband's latent homosexuality — indeed the reason itself as to why her husband became 'Gerald Candless' in the first place.

gollark: Perhaps they want stuff which has interesting useful properties. Apparently magmae have basically no requirements.
gollark: If something is very slow to derive I may memorise it also.
gollark: I memorise important things and derive the rest on demand.
gollark: ++remind 2h actyallu
gollark: ++remind 7h check things herefnr wqs

References
  1. Vine, Barbara (26 March 1998). The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (First; hardback ed.). United Kingdom: Viking (UK)/Harmony (US). ISBN 0-670-87927-4.


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