The Shape of Snakes
The Shape of Snakes
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Summary
London, 1978 - the winter of discontent. The Ranelagh's neighbour, Mad Annie, is discovered dying in the gutter and M. Ranelagh takes up a solitary and unpopular defence of Annie. Forced to flee England, she only returns 20 years later, and begins acting on her secretly collected research.
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The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walters
'I could never decide whether Mad Annie was murdered because she was mad or because she was black.' It is 1978 in London - the winter of discontent. Strikes are an everyday occurrence and the Ranelaghs' neighbour, Mad Annie, is discovered dying in the gutter, almost obscured by piles of rubbish. The other residents of Graham Road do little to disguise their satisfaction at her death and in this environment of growing racial and class unrest, M. Ranelagh, the narrator, takes up a solitary, and dangerously unpopular, defence against the vilification of Mad Annie. So dangerous that M. and her husband Sam flee the poisonous climate of England. Twenty years later, the return from overseas and M. now begins acting on her secretly and painstakingly collected research to piece together what really happened. But is it justice for Annie's murder she's after or is it revenge for something very different?
Minette Walters has well and truly established herself as one of the most exciting crime fiction writers today. Almost all of her previous novels have now been adapted as television dramas by the BBC, and a dramatisation of her most recent novel, The Breaker, is currently in production. Minette lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781865083346 |
| ISBN 10 | 1865083348 |
| Title | The Shape of Snakes |
| Author | Minette Walters |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
| Year published | 2000-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |