Title Portobello : a novel / Ruth Rendell

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition Published New York : Scribner, 2010

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Description 290 pages ; 24 cm Summary Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren's life--and the life of his trusting fiancée--the consequences will change them all Analysis Psychological fiction Suspense fiction Subject Middle-aged men -- England -- London -- Fiction. Secrecy -- Fiction. SUBJECT Notting Hill (London, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91055140 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 West End (London, England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97037072 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Reading nook. Novels. LC no. 2009052252 ISBN 1439148511 1439150400 (paperback) 9781439148518 9781439150405 (paperback)

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