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Title: The Girl Next Door
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Ruth Rendell
Narrator: Ric Jerrom
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-07-14
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 135 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
In this psychologically explosive story from "one of the most remarkable novelists of her generation" People, the discovery of bones in a tin box sends shockwaves across a group of long-time friends.
In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. Throughout the summer of 1944 - until one father forbids it - the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden", where the friends play games and tell stories.
Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and their memories?
This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface. Alan, stuck in a passionless marriage, begins flirting with Daphne, a glamorous widow. Michael considers contacting his estranged father, who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944. Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James, an army private who once accompanied the children into the tunnels, and who later disappeared.
In The Girl Next Door Rendell brilliantly shatters the assumptions about age, showing that the choices people make - and the emotions behind them - remain as potent in late life as they were in youth.
