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The Water's Lovely
The Water's Lovely | Ruth Rendell
2 posts | 4 read | 4 to read
The award-winning author of The Babes in the Wood and The Rottweiler brings us another terrifically paced, richly drawn novel of suspense and psychological intrigue. Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream always began in the same way. She and her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather’s lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored and walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, and her mother said, absurdly, “Don’t look!” The dead man was Ismay’s stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she and her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother had lived upstairs with her sister, Pamela. And the bathroom, where Guy had drowned, had disappeared. Ismay worked in public relations, and Heather in catering. They got on well. They always had. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day. . . But even lives as private as these, where secrets hang in the air like dust, intertwine with other worlds and other individuals. And, with painful inevitability, the truth will emerge. From the Hardcover edition.
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TheRiehlDeal
The Water's Lovely | Ruth Rendell
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Panpan

*sigh* Another book I'm going to pass on. I actually started this yesterday, and am about 50 pages in so far. And to be honest, this book kind reminds me of Seven Days of Us; minus any communicable diseases. This more resembles the kind of family-get-together scenario. This book seems to be going nowhere. Just one more book I can cross of my #JuneTBR.

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MrBook
The Water's Lovely | Ruth Rendell
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#TBRtemptation post 6! From a master of her craft. Recently released. Ismay had the same dream: her and her mother would enter a bedroom side-room in which was a lake with a dead body, her stepfather's. Their old house is divided now with her and her sister still living there. They don't discuss what happened that fateful day 9 years ago. But...the truth will out, in all of it's pain. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

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