Adam And Eve And Pinch Me - Ruth Rendell
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Adam And Eve And Pinch Me - Ruth Rendell

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... The first few pages of ‘Adam and Eve and Pinch Me’ are no exception as even I, a prolific Ruth Rendell reader, wondered where this was all leading-and so what was this detailed trivia all about? The reader is introduced to Minty, a pale young woman living alone in a house left to her ... Read review





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In Adam and Eve and Pinch Me, Ruth Rendell once again tackles the dark and dangerous side ... more
of human psychology. It is this quality that
defines her as a writer and distinguishes her from
the other British Queens of Crime: PD James and
Minette Walters (although some would argue that
Val McDermid is now in that category). She take
the reader into a more sinister and threatening
world than any of her contemporaries, and there is
a reason why she remains non-pareil in this
territory: a reason demonstrated with disturbing
impact in Adam and Eve and Pinch Me. Rendell's
speciality is her ability to enter the
psychopathology of her characters and make us not
only understand their often murderous behaviour,
but also vicariously participate. It's a skill
that Hitchcock made his own in the cinema, but he
rarely moved into such black waters as Rendell.
This new book continues a trend initiated in
earlier work by Rendell: the grafting of
supernatural elements into a typical Rendellian
tale of menace. And what makes the ghost in the
new book so disturbing is the total avoidance of
cliché: no grey, wispy phantom, this--it is
disturbingly corporeal.  Jock Lewis died in the
Paddington train crash. Or did he? His fiancée
Minty is coming to terms with both his loss and
the loss of all her savings, which Jock vanished
with. And there is Zilla, who had been married to
a man called Jerry Leach. She also received a
letter from the railway company telling her that
her husband is dead. Other women, too, who do not
know each other, have all had relationships with a
dark-haired man who disappears from their lives.
And when Jock's ghost reappears to Minty at her
home and at her work, she begins to carry a
knife... but if she stabs him, will he bleed? 
Rendell has always been a writer who likes to take
risks, and the danger here was that Adam and Eve
and Pinch Me would end up as a smorgasbord of
supernatural and crime elements, each cancelling
the other out. But Rendell is far too assured a
writer for this, and the balance between the
different aspects of the book is always kept
rigorously in place. So many writers fall into
dull repetition; here, again, Rendell demonstrates
that she's going from strength to strength.
--Barry Forshaw
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Weaving the Strands of Intrigue
Review of Adam And Eve And Pinch Me - Ruth Rendell by mornev

Advantages: Gripping tale
Disadvantages: I've finished it

Picking up a Ruth Rendell psychological crime thriller for the first time and reading the first few pages, the new reader could be forgiven if they subconsciously thought how ordinary it all seemed. As each character is introduced there appears to be nothing exceptional about them. They could be your next-door neighbours, the person sitting opposite you on a train, one of the mothers at the school gates. Just normal people like you and I think we ...
...Pinch Me’ are no exception as even I, a prolific Ruth Rendell reader, wondered where this was all leading-and so what was this detailed trivia all about? The reader is introduced to Minty, a pale young woman living alone in a house left to her by an Auntie. By day she irons shirts in a local dry cleaning shop in a nearby North London suburb. It soon becomes clear that Minty has a problem judging by the amount of times in a day she washes her hands, ... Read review

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Adam And Eve And Pinch Me - Ruth Rendell

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Author: Ruth Rendell

Title: Adam And Eve And Pinch Me

Genre: Thriller

Type: Fiction

ISBN: 1400031184

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