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TILL DEATH DO US JOIN...Ever since they ran with the same London teenage gang Guy Curran has loved Leonora Chisholm passionately. He was a slum kid, and her parents lived in tasteful Kensington; she went to university while he made his jet-set fortune dealing drugs and sentimental, mass-produced art--but he's always been good enough for her, and once they were lovers. Of course she'll marry him in the end--he's been calling her every day for years and buying her lunch every Saturday. Then Leonora tells him she's engaged to some pasty-faced intellectual. But Guy knows she's being brainwashed by her family and friends--from her snobbish brother and her mother with pointy silver fingernails to her so-superior feminist roommate. Leonora and he belong together...If he can't have her, he'll die--or someone else will.
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Guy (actually, though, his name) is an absolute cipher of a man, absolutely lacking in any moral character and seemingly incapable of bringing anything of worth to society. He's been in love with Leonora for far too long.
So, this is a book about obsessive love and stalking. Though (typical for Rendell) there isn't much in the way of “on-page” violence, it's still a deeply troubling read. You spend the majority of the <300 pages in Guy's head or around his person, and it's not a fun place to be. Despite a denoument that kinda flubbed for me, this is another masterpiece from Rendell - crushed it. Crackin' audio version as well.
