Books by Barbara Vine
language
English
review 1: In the grand tradition of a contemporary story being a refraction of a historical one, this novel tells the tragedy of two pregnant women, about 100 years apart, and their entanglement with homosexual men. There is plenty of social history here as well as thoughtful commentary ab...
language
English
review 1: Like all of Vine's novels, it is about guilt and its consequences, about repressed emotions and suppressed truths, about the insidious appearance of madness in ordinary life, about twisted sex among the upper classes. And about politics, and how all of the above impinge on polit...