I have just finished THE WATER'S LOVELY by prolific mystery writer Ruth Rendell. Again she has written a book one can't put down. Even if the plot seems to rely on coincidence, the vividness of her characters pulls one along. I followed breathlessly the tale of Ismay and her close sister Heather, the step father, deceased Guy who likes long slow baths, mad Beatrice the mother and her sister Pamela who goes to a dating service and meets a dark swarthy man with attractive eyes, Edmund the male nurse who lives with his demanding mother Irene and her friend the venal Marion who lives by her wits and endures a brother Fowler who smells as he gets his precarious living from going through bins in the posher parts of London. Not to mention Andrew who is a lawyer who smokes. And of course two adorable rabbits who seem prey to some horrible fate. (shades of Fatal Attraction) and then a Max Jacob handbag. The details remain with me.
I was distracted from the hurly burly, the dreadful real news, the explosions, the NYTimes with its sensational information tastefully written. Good for you Ruth Rendell, you have entertained me. Long may you write.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment