num_pages: 164
description: "Her name was Elizabeth Ashbridge. And I even envied her that". For Ruth, so begins an obsession with her cousin that leads her into a maelstrom of destruction and culminates in a tragedy so shocking that neither Ruth nor those around her will ever recover. The sin of a mother is visited on the next generation in a novel of extraordinary force and lyricism.
language: English
title: Sin
titlecomplete: Sin
genres: British Literature, Mystery, Novels, Thriller, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
ratings_count: 922
publisher: Knopf