by Barbara Vine · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141040639
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«The Birthday Present» is the suspense novel by Barbara Vine, published by Penguin in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Ivor Tesham, a rising politician in Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a north London housewife in a grey marriage, have an affair. In 1990, for Hebe's birthday, Tesham devises a risky gift that triggers a fall from grace, amid IRA bombings, the first Gulf War and political corruption.
Barbara Vine is the pseudonym of Ruth Rendell, author of crime fiction. The novel was published in 2009 in English.
For readers of suspense and crime fiction with a political backdrop in Britain in the 1990s.
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.
