Description
Product ID: | 9780099528692 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Starlight |
Authors: | Author: Stella Gibbons |
Page Count: | 336 |
Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous 'rackman'. Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living secretively in the attic above them. Their quiet lives are thrown into confusion when a new landlord takes over, a dreaded and unscrupulous ''rackman''. He installs his wife in part of the cottages in the hope that there she will recover from an unspecified malady. With a mounting sense of fear, Gladys and Annie become convinced she is possessed by an evil spirit... |
Imprint Name: | Vintage Classics |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-08-04 |