No Night is Too Long
The seventh Barbara Vine novel published by Viking in 1994
My son had been reading a book about shipwrecked mariners, people left on desert islands. Some were put ashore as punishment. I thought, I will write a novel about someone who maroons somebody else, and his terrible remorse at doing such a thing. I went to Alaska to do it …
Set in Alaska and Suffolk, this story involves a brother and sister—Ivo and Isabel—each of whom has a sexual relationship with Tim.
When Ivo is left for dead on an Arctic island, the way seems clear for Tim and Isabel. But nothing plays itself out in the way one might expect.
Notes
The Tall House: Tim’s house in Suffolk is based on the house next door to Ruth Rendell’s former home Edinburgh House in Aldeburgh.
Adapted for TV by Kevin Elyot and first transmitted on BBC Two in December 2002.
Ruth Rendell talks to psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare about her disturbed characters.
Contemporary Reads 2
Peter Høeg - Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow
Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up!
Denis Lehane - A Drink Before The War
Andrea Camilleri - The Shape of Water
Henning Mankell - The Man Who Smiled
P.D. James - Original Sin
Footnotes
If I were to kill Wexford, there’d be an outcry. Independent 2013. ↩︎
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